Grigory Gavrilov Biography

Georgy Davidovich Gavrilov is the last ice intelligence officer the story of a polar explore, who studied Arctic ice for 15 years and provided the safe wiring of ships along the Northern Sea Route Georgy Davidovich Gavrilov is now retired: he educates his grandchildren and writes memoirs. He has something to tell readers about. For almost 20 years he worked at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, took part in the fifty expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic.

The main duty of Gavrilov was to conduct ice intelligence and study the state of ice. He said goodbye to the extreme north, but still believes that work in the Arctic was the best period in his life. In early youth, George Gavrilov was going to engage in electrical engineering to continue the family tradition. His father was the chief engineer at the Electrosil plant and was even awarded the Stalin Prize.

Mother first worked there, and then began to teach an electrician at the Polytechnic University. The same path was chosen by the sisters and brother of George Davidovich. Therefore, he got a job as an electrical technician and entered the evening department of the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute.

Then he started working on Baikonur. He was engaged in the author’s supervision of our missile sites. ” Georgy Gavrilov from the 4th year Georgy Davidovich was expelled for poor performance and went to the army. After the service, he decided to start everything from the new sheet and entered the Geographical Department of the Leningrad State University. In parallel, he took up the search for work and accidentally found an announcement of the recruitment of participants on an expedition to the Novosibirsk Islands.

I arrived there and I met a tall, dried, already elderly, old, old man. Well, I began to ask me. It is customary in all these search institutions with a person to have a conversation. Well, I briefly told him to him, he listened with pleasure everything and says, well, well, we will take you with pleasure. He says that we have such an expedition in the Novosibirsk Islands, choose a profession.

There, as always, this is a loader, mainly. Well, I agreed. " Nikolai Urvantsev so happened that the first person who proposed Georgy Gavrilov to go to the Arctic was the legendary polar explorer-penalist, thanks to which Norilsk arose. Have you heard this? When several years have passed, I read Ushakov’s book, how they opened the Northern Earth. And there are Urvantsev.

Somewhere a photograph flickered-something familiar. And in the end, I found him in this way. This was my meeting amazing. " Later, Georgy Davidovich saw another famous polar explorer, Mikhail Somov. But you can’t call this meeting joyful. It occurred at the very end of the year, when Somov went to the hospital, from where he no longer came out. The Komsomol was then, we were called by all.

According to the law of meanness, it turned out that I had to go to him on New Year's Eve. I came there, they told me - now we will spend you. And they took me somewhere lower. And they brought me to the morgue. They took me for a relative. Unfortunately, I have never seen Somov before. I saw him for the first and last time only in this state. ” In general, the life of George Gavrilov was rich in meeting with famous people.

Lev Gumilyov “He was a man’s man. He was fond of his story, forgot, jumped from one to another. It was impossible to understand something there. It was necessary, just opening his mouth, to listen. But that was such a storyteller. He sometimes grabbed his pointer, began to conduct her, read poetry - his own dads, mom. In general, it was some kind of fairy tale. ” After a meeting with Nikolai Urvantsev, close people dissuaded George from the expedition to the Novosibirsk Islands and from work at the Arctic Institute.

Instead, they advised to get a job at the Arctic and Antarctic Institute, in which the expeditions were not seasonal, but year -round. At that time, it was located in the Sheremetyevo Palace - this also played an important role. It captivated me very much. When he arrived, he climbed the cast -iron old staircase on the third floor to Pavel Afanasevich Gordienko, the head of the department.

Outstanding polar researcher. He was one of the first to transition on dogs from Cape Schmidt to Wrangel Island. ” By the way, the institute became another intersection point of George Gavrilov and Lev Gumilyov. And then I was transferred to the side outbuilding, now it is called a fountain house where Anna Akhmatova lived. And imagine, it’s hard to believe, but it was in the Akhmatova bedroom that our laboratory was located.

” Loading on board took place on a dixon, where scientists got an airplane. But this was not easy to do. This is how George Davidovich describes this flight in his memoirs: “Flight from Leningrad to Dixon would probably not have been preserved in my memory, if it weren’t for a forced delay in the spitter, which was forgotten in antiquity, in Cape Drovyanya, almost already at the exit to the Kara Sea.

There was no weather on Dixon, and we hung in this airport forgotten by God for a couple of days. The landscape surrounding his dull monotony did not cause much joy.Around the endless dull tundra, the signs of which we have just studied in the classroom on the physical geography of the USSR. ” But the impressions that George received, first climbing on board the icebreaker, were completely different.

This is an unforgettable impression, I, in principle, almost did not sleep there, walked and examined all the time, studied all the time. ” The most interesting, but at the same time, a difficult occupation Gavrilov appeared ice intelligence. And he began to master this profession. Ice scouts should not only visually look for passages with clean water among the ice fields, but also be able to determine the thickness of the ice by eye to understand whether to understand whether it will be able to overcome the icebreaker or not.

Then there were no navigation devices of such clear ones. Therefore, he flew somewhere, and the icebreaker determined where he was. He chose the most optimal points of the route, where there is some kind of weakening of ice, where there is less thickness, more dilute, and now he went into this lane, became, and he was painted. ” Before doing ice intelligence directly, Georgy Davidovich was engaged in the study of ice.

And he went on expeditions on icebreakers, collecting data that was necessary to calculate forecasts. On a small, very interesting steamer, the captain is Voronin. The icebreaker "Murmansk". Well, on "Lenin", of course, I visited. And my last expedition on the icebreaker was also very significant, during the launch of our first atomic large nuclear power plant "Arctic".

There we had an interesting job - we measured ice directly from the side of the nuclear power plant. We ordered a special cradle one that was suspended on board the ship, we climbed into this cradle. We had a measuring rail, on which there were decimeter marks so that you could determine the accuracy of at least 10 centimeters. We lowered it on the go, when the ice floe turned out, we applied this rail to this ice floe and determined the thickness.

” The expeditions on the icebreakers were remembered by Georgy Gavrilov, not only by work. He has accumulated many interesting stories related to trips to the Arctic. He talks about many of them in his memoirs, including this. And so we went to Dixon and gave us a little bear. The whole crew adored him. The radio engineer took him in his cabin. She was just near our weatherboard.

Well, I could not resist, then I quietly throw a jar of condensed milk there, then something else, he adored a condensed milk. In short, we made friends with him. About a month this trip continued. Well, then, when the expedition was already over, they brought him to our Leningrad Zoo. And it passed after this year, and my family has already formed, children, and we come, I bring children to the zoo, and there is some kind of bear.

I told them this story. Then I shout: “Masha! Suddenly she suddenly jumps and floats to us. Either this coincidence, or something, but I was just surprised. " After the expedition at the Arctic nuclear plant, Georgy Gavrilov finally moved to ice intelligence and looked at the ice no longer from the icebreaker, but from the Il aircraft cabin - it was this car that was used for ice intelligence.