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Mikhail Babushkin

Mikhail Babushkin (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Ба́бушкин; October 6, 1893 – May 18, 1938) was a Soviet polar aviator and a Hero of the Soviet Union (June 27, 1937). Together with Mikhail Vodopyanov, he was the first to land an airplane on the North Pole.

Mikhail Babushkin
Born(1893-10-06)6 October 1893
Village of Bordino, Russian Empire
(today Moscow, Russia; merged into the city)
Died18 May 1938(1938-05-18) (aged 44)
Allegiance Soviet Union
AwardsHero of the Soviet Union

Biography Edit

Mikhail Babushkin was born in a village of Bordino (which was merged into the city of Moscow in 1960), started military service in 1914, graduated from Gatchina aviation school (one of the first Russian aviation schools) in 1915. Since 1923 he served in the Arctic aviation. He took part in an expedition to rescue Umberto Nobile in 1928, and in the Chelyuskin expedition in 1933. He took part in the flights to the Soviet drifting ice station "North Pole-1" in 1937. Between 1937 and 1938, Mikhail Babushkin participated in a search for Sigizmund Levanevsky. He died in 1938 in a flight accident and was interred at the Novodevichy Cemetery.[1]

Mikhail Babushkin was also a recipient of the Order of Lenin. A district of Moscow (in the area where he was born) and the Babushkinskaya station of the Moscow Metro are named after him.[1]

References Edit

  1. ^ a b "Бабушкин Михаил Сергеевич". www.warheroes.ru. Retrieved 6 February 2018.

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