[1] Golovin was the world's first pilot to fly an airplane over the North Pole, on 5 May 1937.

[2] The first flight over the North Pole had been made in the dirigible Nord by pilot Umberto Nobile and polar explorers Lincoln Ellsworth and Roald Amundsen on May 13, 1926.

[3] A street in his city of birth, Naro-Fominsk, is named after him.

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