Yakov Yakovlevich Gakkel (; July 18, 1901, in
Saint Petersburg
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– December 30, 1965, in
Leningrad
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) was a Soviet and Russian
oceanographer
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It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of top ...
, doctor of geographical sciences (1950), professor, director of the geography department of the
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, son of scientist
Yakov Modestovich Gakkel.
Yakov Gakkel participated in numerous
Arctic
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expeditions, including the ones on the icebreaker ''
Sibiryakov'' (1932) and the steamship ''
Chelyuskin'' (1934). He was the first one to create a
bathymetric map of the Arctic basin.
Yakov Gakkel was awarded two orders and several medals during his scientific career. In 1966, one of the
mid-oceanic ridge
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s was named after him.
References
1901 births
1965 deaths
Explorers of the Arctic
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
Russian polar explorers
20th-century Russian explorers
Russian oceanographers
Soviet polar explorers
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