What happened to the Rusanov expedition. Versions and finds. Zobnin A.N.

The North Arctic Ocean is fraught with many secrets and riddles. One of them is the mystical disappearance of the expedition of the experienced polar traveler Vladimir Alexandrovich Rusanov. Rusanov gave his heart to the North back in his student years. And in 1909. He became a member of the 1st Novozemelsk expedition. He managed to make the incredible: he went around not only the northern part of the island, but also the southern one, which no one had succeeded before him. After this expedition, Vladimir Alexandrovich matured an incredible idea: to organize a journey through the Arctic Ocean. “No other way can be more profitable than the northern sea. No other way can be created soon. I would consider the goal of what was achieved if in my call to conquer ice was heard something more - a call for power, greatness and glory of Russia, ”said the experienced polar traveler V.A. Rusanov.

In 1912, Vladimir Rusanov decided to make a daring attempt to walk on a small vessel along the Northern Sea Route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The expedition of Rusanov disappeared, and only in 1934 the first traces were discovered off the west coast of Taimyr. In the 1970s, it was possible to find another parking of the Rusanovites, but the circumstances of the tragic death of the expedition are still a secret.

until now the Arctic has not revealed the secrets of the death of Rusanov’s expeditions and there are still those who are trying to solve This riddle.