Rudolf Samoylovich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Soviet polar explorer
Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1881
Place of Birth: Azov, Rostov Oblast, Russia
Date of Death: 04-Mar-1939
Profession: explorer
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Rudolf Samoylovich
- Rudolf (Ruvim) Lazarevich Samoylovich (Russian: ??????? ????????? ??????????) (13 September (O.S.
- 1 September), 1881, Azov – 4 March 1939, Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet polar explorer, professor (1928), and doctor of geographic sciences (1934). In 1904, Rudolf Samoylovich graduated from the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Germany.
- In 1912, he participated in Vladimir Rusanov's geological expedition to Spitsbergen.
- Rudolf Samoylovich was one of the initiators and the first director of the Northern Research and Trade Expedition (???????? ??????-??????????? ??????????) (1920–1925).
- In 1925, this research center was reorganized into the Institute of Northern Studies (???????? ?? ???????? ??????), headed by Rudolf Samoylovich in 1925–1930.
- In 1932–1938, he was deputy director of the All-Union Arctic Institute (?????????? ??????????? ????????).
- Rudolf Samoylovich was also the founder and first chairman of the Polar Countries' Department at Leningrad State University (1934–1937).
- Rudolf Samoylovich was the head of the rescue party on the Krasin icebreaker (1928).
- Also, he participated in the Graf Zeppelin expedition (1931) and headed expeditions on icebreakers Vladimir Rusanov (1932), Georgy Sedov (1934), and Sadko (1936 and 1937–1938).
- In 1938 Rudolf Samoylovich was arrested and then executed, most likely some time in 1940.
- In 1988 he was posthumously rehabilitated. A strait and a glacier top on Franz Josef Land, a bay on Novaya Zemlya, an island in Severnaya Zemlya, a peninsula and a nunatak in the Antarctica bear Rudolf Samoylovich's name.
- He was awarded the Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
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