North Pole-1

North Pole-1 (Russian: Северный полюс-1) was the world's first manned drifting station in the Arctic Ocean, primarily used for research.

The expedition had been airlifted by aviation units under the command of Mark Shevelev.

"NP-1" operated for 9 months, during which the ice floe travelled 2,850 kilometres (1,770 mi).

On 19 February 1938 the Soviet ice breakers Taimyr and Murman took four polar explorers off the station close to the eastern coast of Greenland.

[1] The expedition members, hydrobiologist Pyotr Shirshov, geophysicist Yevgeny Fyodorov, radioman Ernst Krenkel, and the commander Ivan Papanin,[2] were awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title.

Otto Schmidt and pilots of the aircraft of the North Pole-1 expedition to the North Pole, from left to right: Ivan Spirin, Mark Shevelev , Mikhail Babushkin , Otto Schmidt, Mikhail Vodopyanov , Anatoly Alekseev and Vasily Molokov , 1937