№ 1434. 125th anniversary of birth of N.N. Zubov (1885-1960)

Nikolay Zubov (1885-1960) is a naval officer, hydrographer, oceanologist, Arctic explorer. He participated in the Russian-Japanese War and the Battle of Tsushima in 1905. In 1932, he headed the expedition on sailing-motor boat "Nikolai Knipovich" and for the first time in the history of Arctic navigation rounded from the north the Franz Josef Land archipelago. In 1935 he led the scientific part of the first Soviet high-altitude expedition on the icebreaker "Sadko".
Nikolay Zubov made the great contribution to the development of the native oceanography: he was among the first to put forward and develop the problem of ice forecasting in the Arctic seas, he also founded the Department of Oceanology in Moscow Hydrometeorological Institute and Moscow State University.
Gulf in Antarctica, cape of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago and two research ships: "Nikolay Zubov" and "Professor Zubov" were named in his honor.
The stamp depicts a portrait of N.N. Zubov and the icebreaker "Sadko".