Vasily Igorevich Yelagin (russian: Василий Игоревич Елагин; born 22 February 1953
[) is Russian ]mountaineer
Mountaineering or alpinism, is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending tall mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include traditional outdoor climbing, skiing, and traversing via ferratas. Indoor climbing, sport climbing, an ...
and explorer, head of the MLAE-2008, MLAE-2009 In 2009, the Marine Live-ice Automobile Expedition (MLAE) successfully traversed the Arctic waters and ice between Ostrov Sredniy island of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago and the North Pole. The route took 38 days between 20 March and 26 April ...
, MLAE-2011
MLAE-2011 was a two vehicle expedition with a crew of seven following a route from Dudinka (Russia) via the North Pole to Resolute Bay (Canada).
The expedition was organized by the Russian Center For Arctic Exploration and carried out under the p ...
, MLAE-2013, MLAE-2014, and MLAE-2015 expeditions.["Морская Ледовая Автомобильная Экспедиция"]
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For his second Himalayas
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expedition (1989) he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to th ...
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References
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1953 births
Living people
Russian mountain climbers
Russian explorers