Mikhail Babushkin
Mikhail Babushkin was a Soviet polar aviator and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Together with Mikhail Vodopyanov, he was the first to land an airplane on the North Pole.Biography
Mikhail Babushkin was born in a village of Bordino, started military service in 1914, graduated from Gatchina aviation school in 1915. Since 1923 he served in the Arctic aviation. He took part in an expedition to rescue Umberto Nobile in 1928, and in the Chelyuskin expedition in 1933. He took part in the flights to the Soviet drifting ice station "North Pole-1" in 1937. In 1937-1938, Mikhail Babushkin participated in a search for Sigizmund Levanevsky. He died in 1938 in a flight accident and was interred at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Mikhail Babushkin was also a recipient of the Order of Lenin. A district of Moscow and the Babushkinskaya station of the Moscow Metro are named after him.
