Together with Mikhail Vodopyanov, he was the first to land an airplane on the North Pole.

Mikhail Babushkin was born in a village of Bordino (which was merged into the city of Moscow in 1960), started military service in 1914, graduated from Gatchina aviation school (one of the first Russian aviation schools) in 1915.

He took part in the flights to the Soviet drifting ice station "North Pole-1" in 1937.

Between 1937 and 1938, Mikhail Babushkin participated in a search for Sigizmund Levanevsky.

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