Author: Tolmachev, I. P. and Baklund, O. O.
Title: Zamietka O Gornykh Porodakh, Sobrannykh V 1913 Godu Gidrograficheskoi Ekspeditsiei Sievernago Ledovitago Okeana (Notes on the Rock Samples, Collected in 1913, During the Archtic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition) [Stamped by the Author]
Description: S.-Peterburg (St. Petersburg), Tipografiia Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1914. First Edition. First edition, part of "Izviestiia Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk - 1914" series; 10 1/2 x 7 1/2; pp. 727-736; light-brown wraps, printed in black; illustrated with a map and 4 photographs; wraps detached, but present; edges of wraps with small chips and cuts; a few light finger-smudges to page margins, else clean and well-preserved; in about good condition. Stamped to front wrap: "OT AVTORA" (From the Author). The Arctic Expedition of 1913, during which the large archipelago Land of Emperor Nicholas II was discovered (later renamed Severnaya Zemlya), marked the end of the Age of Discovery. The brain and driving force behind the expedition was Inokentii Pavlovich Tolmachev (1872 - 1950) - a scientist and polar explorer, who was, during earlier expeditions, the first to explore the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range in Southern Siberia, the head of the Khatanga River in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia, the Chukotka Peninsula (studying the practicality of the Northern Sea Route), the Zhetysu part of modern day Kazakhstan, and others. In several of his travels, he was accompanied by another famed geologist - Oleg Oskarovich Baklund (1878 - 1958). In 1922, under political pressure, Tolmachev accepted an invitation to work in the US and moved to Pittsburgh, where he taught at the U of Pittsburgh and continued writing. His current, short memorandum, presented together with Oleg Baklund, mentioned the equipment and the management of the expedition (the icebreakers Taimyr and Vaigach, the captain of the operation - B. Vilkitskii, etc.), and described each of the islands, penninsulas, and archipelagos studied, with their coordonates, features, and types of rocks, which were collected. Not in OCLC; not in the trade (as of February 2020). Good .

Keywords: Exploration, Arctic


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