North 4

The expedition leader is A. A. Kuznetsov .

Were made flights with the primary landing on the drifting ice. The following aircraft took part in the work: Li-2 , Il-12 , Pe-8 . Commanders: A. I. Zadkov, N. N. Zubov , M. S. Agrov, B. S. Osipov , G. A. Korsakov, M. A. Titlov , P. P. Moskalenko , F. P. Shatrov, A. P. Shtepenko .

During the Sever-4 expedition, the head of the Northern Sea Route Main Directorate, Alexander Alekseevich Kuznetsov, decided to conduct an operation to paratroop parachutists at a geographic point of the North Pole. The operation was managed by Maxim Nikolaevich Chibisov , the purpose of the operation is to assess the ability to jump with a parachute in the Arctic, to identify the specifics of the opening of the parachute, to reduce, to control it, to land. ^[one]

On May 9, 1949, a C-47 polar aviation aircraft with the USSR H-369 airborne number (Metlitsky crew) at 12 o'clock Moscow time flew out of one of the WWE operational bases - “Base number two”, and an hour later Vitaly Volovich ^[2] and Andrei Medvedev successfully performed the world's first parachute jump to the North Pole , initiating a new method of delivering people and goods in the harsh conditions of the central Arctic.

In 2009, the Russian Post issued a postal envelope dedicated to this landing. ^[3]

Staff

1. M.E. Ostrekin - Deputy Head of the Expedition, Geophysicist.
2. VG Kanaki - aerometeorologist.
3. MM Somov is an oceanologist.
4. P. K. Senko - geophysicist.
5. Ya. Ya. Gakkel - geographer.
6. V.T. Timofeev - oceanologist.
7. N. A. Milyaev - geophysicist.
8. M. M. Nikitin - oceanographer.
9. A. F. Trёshnikov - oceanographer.
10. N. A. Volkov is an oceanologist.
11. KI Chukanin - meteorologist.
12. P. G. Lobza - hydrochemist.
13. EI Tolstikov - meteorologist.
14. V. F. Pronin - meteorologist.
15. V.P. Orlov - meteorologist.
16. O. A. Romanenko - forecaster.
17. D. B. Karelin - oceanologist.
18. V.S. Antonov - hydrologist.
19. N. V. Shakirov - a hydrologist-aerial surveyor.
20. V. Kh. Buinitsky - oceanologist.
21. EAT. Suzyumov - Assistant Chief of the Expedition on the operational part

• High latitude arctic expedition
• Soviet Antarctic Expedition
• Russian Antarctic Expedition
• Polar station
• North Pole

• High-latitude air expeditions "North" (1937, 1941-1993)