Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor: The Biography of Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev, 1905-1991 Volume 13

by A.M. Ermolaev and V.D. Dibner

One of the most prominent Soviet Arctic scientists of the 1920s and 1930s, Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev was a geologist, physicist, and oceanographer. After working in the Arctic for some thirteen years, he was arrested by the NKVD, convicted on a trumped-up charge of "sabotage," and sent to the Gulag for ten years. After barely surviving a year of correctional hard labour in a lumber camp, Ermolaev was appointed to a sharashka, or professional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552382567
• ISBN13: 9781552382561
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 615 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.8" x 9.0"