The main task of the expedition was a comprehensive and complete description of the Caspian Sea in order to draw up its detailed and accurate map.

The head of the expedition plunged into the sea with the ship, but was carried by the waves to the rock and was able to grab the end of a rope.

On 15 September, the Baku Sea Station commander, the Captain of the 1st Rank K. Freygang and the district chief L. Pigulevsky, arrived at the crash site.

The Chief Commander of the Astrakhan Port and the Caspian Flotilla, Rear Admiral Wolf, headed the commission of inquiry created to study the incident.

He was the first to explain the reasons for the change in the coastline, the peculiarities of currents, the disappearance and emergence of the islands of the Caspian Sea.

Under the leadership of Ivashintsov, 61 astronomical points were determined, for the first time a detailed measurement of the entire Caspian Sea was made, depths of over 900 m were discovered, samples of water and soil were collected.

[2] Most of the victims were buried near the crash site, in a common mass grave, over which a modest monument was erected.

Already during the period of independence of Azerbaijan, in 2005, closer to the 60th anniversary of the Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War, the monument was restored.