Ivan Papanin is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Ivan Papanin as Soviet explorer (1894–1986).
Ivan Papanin was born at Sevastopol in 1894. His recorded nationality is Russian Empire.
Nineteenth-century exploration turned inland - Africa, Asia and Australia - and was entangled from the start with empire, missions and the geographical societies that funded it.
He is recorded as polar explorer, writer and military personnel.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Recognition followed: Order of Lenin, Medal "For the Victory over Japan", Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and Order of the Red Banner.
Ivan Papanin died in 1986, aged 92. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Order of Lenin
- Medal "For the Victory over Japan"
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Order of the Red Banner
- Recorded as polar explorer, writer and military personnel
