Expedition diary — insights into the history of organizing and conducting Russian Arctic expeditions in the early XXth century
https://doi.org/10.30758/0555-2648-2022-68-1-76-86
Abstract
The collections belonging to the Museum-Archive of the history of study and development of the European North of the Barents Center of the Humanities — Branch of the Federal Research Center «Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences» (BCH KSC RAS), contain several handwritten diaries by members of Arctic expeditions organized in the first half of the XXth century. The article discusses the value of the expedition diary of a member of a Russian Arctic expedition to Dikson Island (1916), the hydrometeorologist Innokenty Tikhomirov (1890–1955), as a possible source of data on the history of organizing and conducting scientific research in the Arctic. Based on the data presented in the diary, the paper reconstructs the progress of work on the organization of the northernmost meteorological station on Dikson Island in 1916.
Keywords
Arctic expeditions,
diary,
Dikson Island,
I.K. Tikhomirov meteorological station,
historical sources
Supporting agencies: The financial support of the study was provided from the federal budget within the state task of the KSC RAS on research topic No. FMEZ-2022-0028.
About the Authors
O. V. Shabalina
Barents Centre of the Humanities – Branch of the Federal Research Centre «Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences»
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Apatity, Murmansk region
K. S. Kazakova
Barents Centre of the Humanities – Branch of the Federal Research Centre «Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences»
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Apatity, Murmansk region
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Shabalina O.V., Kazakova K.S. Expedition diary — insights into the history of organizing and conducting Russian Arctic expeditions in the early XXth century. Arctic and Antarctic Research. 2022;68(1):76-86. https://doi.org/10.30758/0555-2648-2022-68-1-76-86
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