Biography
In the history of Arctic navigation, there are missing expeditions, the versions of the death of which are prose to the novels. The biographies and adventures of John Franklin and Francis Crozye, missing in the Arctic in the middle of the XIX century, was based on the crypto historical work of Dan Simmons "Terror". And the Russian navigator Vladimir Rusanov became the prototype of the character of the book of Veniamine Caveryin "Two Captain" - Ivan Tatarinov. If the heroes "Terror" were looking for a North-West passage from Europe in Canada in the Arctic, then Rusanov in the preceding festival expedition of campaigns for the first time bypassed new land from the north, optimizing the route of the Northern Sea Route.Childhood and youth
The future conqueror of the Arctic Ocean appeared in November 1875 in the distant from the seas of the city of Orle. Vladimir's father - earlier a merchant of the middle arm - broke and died when the only son was 4 years old.
The playfulness and the living mind prevented Rusanov to study in the gymnasium. A boy who was only interested in travel books and gathering a variety of stones, excluded from an educational institution.
Issi Volodya Andrei Sokolov contributed to the arrival of the stepper to the Oryol spiritual seminary, in which he worked. The teenager did not like Scholastics that reigned in the forge of church personnel. He graduated from the Educational Institution of Rusanov only at 21.
Back in the seminary, Vladimir joined the underground revolutionary circle. Entering the University of Kiev, the young man continued opposition activities. For participation in student unrest, Rusanova was sent from Kiev to Eagle. At the small motherland, the guy was arrested.
In conclusion, Vladimir read the Book of Fogrotof Nansen "Among the ice in the darkness of the polar night." Since after the liberation of Rusanov continued to be revolutionary activities, the Volnoduumz was exiled for 2 years to the city of Ust-Sysolsk Vologda province.
Personal life
Vladimir Aleksandrovich, judging by the photo, who had an impressive appearance, sought attention to women, ready to follow the revolutionary and traveler to the edge of light. The first time Rusanov created a family with Orlovchanka Maria Petrovna Bulatova. Despite the protests of their parents, the young wife went with Vladimir in the link to the Vologda province. In the Russian north of the spouses born and soon the first child died.After graduating from the link, Volnodumtsu was forbidden to live in university cities of Russia, so to complete education, Rusanov went to Paris. In Sorbonne, Vladimir studied geologist, and his wife is on the doctor. However, in March 1905, Mary died, the cause of the death of a young woman was the maternity female.
All worries about the newborn took over the mother of Vladimir. The new grandmother was afraid of re-marriage, because he was afraid that the second wife would take her belly adorable grandson.
New happiness in the personal life of Rusanov found with French Juliette French-session. On the natural faculty of sorbonna, the girl received 2 formations - geological and medical. In the letter of the mother, Vladimir reported that Juliette dismantled in music and painting, high and good.
When Rusanov, at the head of the expedition, went to Svalbard, with the navigator and his team on board the Ship "Hercules" rose and Jean-Sessin, who was still in the status of the bride. Vladimir Alexandrovich was the Forest of the dedicated love of French Beauty. In addition, the researcher was needed by the Medic in the campaign in the seas of the Arctic. The "rehearsal of a wedding trip", as the native of Eagle called the Avenant, turned around for Rusanov and his bride of death.
Scientific activity
For incomplete 12 years from the date of reference to the tragic final, Vladimir Alexandrovich managed to surprise a lot. In Ust-Sysolsk, Rusanov served as statisticians in the Zemstvo Management. During expeditions along the Pechora region, the native of the eagle not only performed job duties, but also collected material for scientific works.
In Sorbonne, the former exile brilliance showed himself when studying the extinct French volcanoes and the effusive exposive eruption of Vesuvius in 1906. To write a doctoral dissertation, Vladimir collected materials on the new land, and the Governor of Arkhangelsk greatly helped in the organization of the expedition. The township was examined by the Rusanova's trip and his like-minded zoologist and geographer from Kharkov Lion Molchanova as a measure of countering Norwegian poaching on the archipelago.
The second time on the new land, Vladimir Alexandrovich visited the period from May to September 1907 as part of the French expedition, for the third time - in the summer of 1909 with the Russian group, and the fourth - with the beginning of navigation in 1910.
Rusanov made so many discoveries that some of them became the basis for his scientific articles, and the part was assigned to the French Arctic researchers. On the new Earth, the Son of the merchant discovered unknown ancient organisms, which made it possible to draw conclusions about the stages and paths of the settlement of the Devonian fauna in the polar regions. Rusanov opened mineral deposits - in particular coal, diabase and marble.
However, the eagle's native of the Eagle as a researcher of the hydrography and meteorology of the Barents and Kara Seas, who corrected the route of ships from Arkhangelsk to Siberia was most famous. The main publication of Vladimir Alexandrovich is called "On the issue of the Northern Sea Route."
Death
Circumstances and accurate date of death of Vladimir Alexandrovich are unknown. On July 9, 1912, "Hercules" under the command of Captain Alexander Konchina, who had previously participated in the expedition of Rual Amundsen to the South Pole, started from Alexandrovsk-on-Murman (now the city is called polar).According to the official plan, the ship was supposed to return in October of the same year. However, the presence on board the "Hercules" of the reserve of provisions for 18 months testified to the presence of additional projects from Rusan.
By the beginning of August, the expedition implemented an official program: set 28 signs on Spitsbergen than the right to mining coal at the Polar Archipelago was consolidated. On August 18, Vladimir Alexandrovich, Vladimir Alexandrovich, left to send a telegram to the larger land with information about the intention to move to the east and reach the Islands of Privacy and Wrangel. More information about the location of "Hercules" was not received.
In 1914 and 1915, the tsarist government has repeatedly equipped search and rescue detachments in order to find Rusanov and its companions, as well as participants in the Arctic of Expeditions, Georgy Brusylov and Georgy Sedov. However, the results of the search did not give. Only in 1934, the islets near the coast of Hyriton Laptev found personal belongings of members of the Rusanov team and a pillar with a chopped inscription "Hercules. 1913.
Memory
- Mount Rusanova as part of Russian mountains in Antarctica
- Icebreaker "Vladimir Rusanov"
- Tanker Gasovoz "Vladimir Rusanov"
- Rusanovo village in the Trinity-Pechora district of Komi
- Streets and alleys Vladimir Rusanov in Severodvinsk, Moscow, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Orel and Pechora
- Monuments Rusanov in Pechora, Orel
- Museum V.A. Rusanova in Orel