Gordienko, Pavel Afanasevich

Timeline

Pavel Gordienko was born on July 15, 1913 in Enakievo, Donetsk region .

In 1937 he worked as a hydrologist at Dixon , while simultaneously studying at the Moscow Hydrometeorological Institute (MGMI) .

June 16, 1938 he graduated from the Hydrological Department of MGMI, Department of Oceanology, having received the specialty of Oceanologist ^[2] .

After graduation, he worked at the polar station located on Cape Schmidt . He worked at the station from 1938 to 1940, held the positions of engineer-hydrologist and head of the station.

For 45 years of work, P. A. Gordienko participated in 60 polar expeditions, in some of which he was the leader. Over six navigations, he led the scientific groups of the institute at the headquarters of naval operations in the eastern region of the Northern Sea Route , worked in nine high-latitude North air expeditions .

In 1941-1953, he was an employee of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute . In 1946, by order of K-15 of January 10, 1946, he received the badge of honor “Polar Explorer”.

After the war in 1948 he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on the WWE " North-2 ", worked as an oceanologist .

Since 1949, P. A. Gordienko took the post of head of the ice forecast department of the AARI, in 1950 he was awarded the Order of Lenin ^[2] .

From 1953 to 1955, Gordienko was the chief hydrologist of the Hydrometeorological Administration of the Northern Sea Route . In 1955 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and the medal "For Labor Valor" ^[2] .

Since 1955 he returned to work at the AARI, where he worked the rest of his life until 1982. On April 9, 1955, he received the change of the North Pole-4 drifting station from EI Tolstikov ; on April 20, 1956, he transferred the station to A. G. Dralkin.

In the season of 1956-1957 he led the naval detachment of the second Soviet Antarctic expedition .

1957-1962 he worked as deputy director of the AARI (until 1960 - V.V. Frolov , from 1960 - A.F. Treshnikov ) for the scientific part. From March to May 1961 he was the head of the WWE " North-13 " ^[2] .

In 1967, at the WWE “Sever-19” became deputy chief of “A-138/169” for science.

From March to May 1969 he was the head of the WWE " Sever-21 ", the next year from March to May he was the head of the WWE " Sever-22 ". In 1970, P. A. Gordienko defended his thesis for the title of Doctor of Geographical Sciences.

In 1971, he was awarded the Order of the October Revolution .

In 1976, he prepared ice forecasts and developed the scientific justification of the route for the expedition on the Arctic icebreaker to the North Pole , prepared the 1978 high-latitude flight of the Siberia atomic icebreaker ^[2] .

He died on November 19, 1982 in the city of Moscow .

Research

The first scientific materials P. A. Gordienko began to collect, working in his first place of work at Cape Schmidt. Throughout his further career, he dealt with issues of assessing ice hummock and developing the influence of ice conditions on shipping in freezing seas. In the process of research, he touched on the issues created the theory of fast ice formation, developed a technique for air reconnaissance of ice. All these works allowed us to bring to a new level the organization and planning of ice pilotage and the extension of navigation along the Northern Sea Route.

P. A. Gordienko trained the AARI staff and helped to raise highly qualified specialists capable of solving complex scientific problems.

Since the 1940s, he has been actively writing books and articles of both a scientific and a popular science focus. Over his entire career, more than 70 scientific papers on the ice masses of the Arctic seas and ice drift have been published. In addition, a number of popular science books have been published.

The archive of P. A. Gordienko is in the Russian State Archive of Economics ( Federal Archive of the Russian Federation ) ^[3] .

Interesting fact

April 23, 1948 Pavel Afanasevich Gordienko, Pavel Kononovich Senko , Mikhail Mikhailovich Somov and Mikhail Emelyanovich Ostryokin were delivered by plane to a point with coordinates 90 degrees north latitude. Then the same plane took them back already as the first people in the world who, with absolute certainty, visited this point of the North Pole . ^[four]

• His name is one of the research vessels of the USSR.

• Glacial Aerial Intelligence (1946).
• Disclosures of the secrets of the Central Arctic (1964).
• Arctic Arctic ... (1973).
• Soviet studies in the high latitudes of the Arctic (1974).
• Glacial conditions for the navigation of ships in the waters of the Arctic (1974).

• Pavel Afanasevich Gordienko
• Pavel Afanasevich Gordienko