Yevgeny Tolstikov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yevgeny Tolstikov

Soviet polar explorer

Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1913

Place of Birth: Tula, Tula Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 03-Dec-1987

Profession: explorer

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Yevgeny Ivanovich Tolstikov (Russian: ??????? ???????? ?????????; 9 February 1913 – 3 December 1987) was a Soviet polar explorer who awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1955 for heading the station "North Pole 4" for a year starting in April 1954.
He led the Third Soviet Antarctic Expedition and one of the first manned drifting ice stations in the Arctic.After the expedition he worked as deputy chief of the State Committee for Hydrometeorological Service Management.A minor planet 3357 Tolstikov discovered by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos in 1984 is named after him.