North Pole-1, Scientific drifting station

Number by catalogue:  Michel: 1791   Yvert: 1768   Scott: 1765  

Perforation type: 12 ½x12

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40 kopecks. View of station North "Pole-1"*

Number by catalogue:  Michel: 1792   Yvert: 1769   Scott: 1766  

Perforation type: 12 ½x12

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60 kopecks

Number by catalogue:  Michel: 1793   Yvert: 1770   Scott: 1767  

Perforation type: 12 ½x12

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1 ruble. View of the station and a scientist at observation post

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*North Pole-1 (Russian: Северный полюс-1) was the first Soviet manned drifting station, primarily used for research.

North Pole-1 was established on May 21, 1937, and officially opened on June 6, some 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the North Pole by the expedition into the high latitudes Sever-1, led by Otto Schmidt. The expedition had been airlifted by aviation units under the command of Mark Shevelev. "NP-1" operated for 9 months, during which the ice floe travelled 2,850 kilometres (1,770 mi). The commander of the station was Ivan Papanin. On February 19, 1938 the Soviet ice breakers Taimyr and Murman took four polar explorers off the station close to the eastern coast of Greenland. They arrived in Leningrad on March 15 onboard the Icebreaker Yermak.

The expedition members, hydrobiologist Pyotr Shirshov, geophysicist Yevgeny Fyodorov, radioman Ernst Krenkel (see the next issue devoted to T.E. Krenkel), and the leader Ivan Papanin, were awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title.

For us at this station most interesting wind turbine that can easily be considered on a fragment of first stamp. 
It reloading 2 sets of alkaline batteries, which fed the polar radio center.

 

Some of this information has been taken from Wikipedia

See also the historical image of the radio station of the station. The image was taken on the webpage "My Sedov"