Ernst Krenkel

Soviet arctic explorer, government official, and journalist

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Ernst Krenkel
Born
Ernst Teodorovich Krenkel

24 December [O.S. 11 December] 1903
Belostok, Russian Empire
Died8 December 1971(1971-12-08) (aged 67)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)Geographer, explorer
AwardsHero of the Soviet Union
E. Krenkel as Polar radio operator on the cover of Radiofront magazine. 1937

Ernst Teodorovich Krenkel (Russian: Эрнст Теодо́рович Кре́нкель; 24 December [O.S. 11 December] 1903 in Białystok – 8 December 1971 in Moscow) was a Soviet Arctic explorer, radio operator, and doctor of geographical sciences (1938). He is best known as one of the four members of the North Pole-1 expedition, for which he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1938. Amateur radio callsigns: EU2EQ, U3AA, UA3AA, RAEM.[1]

Publications

  • Ernst Krenkel. (1937). Four Russians at North Pole Get Together Once a Day. The Science News-Letter, 32(865), 300–300.
  • Ernst Krenkel. (1937). Ice Floe of Polar Scientists No Longer Is Northernmost. The Science News-Letter, 32(872), 407–408.
  • Ernst Krenkel. (1978). RAEM is my call-sign. — Moscow: Progress Publishers. (English edition of memoirs.)

Bibliography

  • Ananyev, A. (2021). Heroes of the Ice: The Polar Explorer and the Ice Hockey Player as Two Masculine Identity Scripts of the Soviet Era. In J. Herzberg, A. Renner, & I. Schierle (Eds.), The Russian Cold: Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow (1st ed., Vol. 22, pp. 226–248). Berghahn Books.
  • McCannon, J. (1995). To storm the Arctic: Soviet polar exploration and public visions of nature in the USSR, 1932-1939. Ecumene, 2(1), 15–31.
  • McCannon, J. (1997). Positive Heroes at the Pole: Celebrity Status, Socialist-Realist Ideals and the Soviet Myth of the Arctic, 1932-39. The Russian Review, 56(3), 346–365.

References

  1. ^ Кренкель Э. Т. RAEM — мои позывные. — Moscow: Советская Россия, 1973

External links

  • Эрнст Теодорович Кренкель — электронные копии книги Э. Т. Кренкеля RAEM — мои позывные и воспоминаний о нём на сайте «VIVOS VOCO!»
  • Video: "Soviet Explorers survive blizzard at Noth Pole", British Pathé, 1928, retrieved 9 January 2023
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