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Evgeny Fedorov
Soviet Polar Researcher Illustrated Envelop with original stamp |
| Description | Evgeny Konstantinovich Fedorov (10 April (O.S. 28 March), 1910, Bendery – 30 December 1981) was a Soviet geophysicist, statesman, public figure, academician (1960), and Hero of the Soviet Union (1938).
Evgeny Fedorov graduated from Leningrad State University in 1932. In 1932-1938, he was a research associate on several polar stations, including the first drifting ice station North Pole-1 (1937-1938). In 1938-1939, Evgeny Fedorov headed the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. In 1939-1947 and 1962–1974, he was in charge of the Soviet Weather Service. In 1947-1955, Evgeny Fedorov was employed at the Geophysics Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He was the one to establish and then head the Applied Geophysics Institute of the Soviet Weather Service.
Evgeny Fedorov authored numerous works dedicated to his research on the Arctic geophysical fields, water balance of clouds, artificial influence on meteorological processes, study of highest atmospheric layers with the use of satellites, pollution etc. Yevgeny Fyodorov was awarded the USSR State Prize (1946, 1969), five Orders of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, six other orders, and several medals.
Evgeny Fedorov was the second chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, in the years 1979-1981. |
| Type | Illustrated Envelop with original stamp |
| Published by/for: | Ministry of Communications, 1985 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Edges/Corners | Fine |
| Used/Unused | Unused |
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