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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Vitus Bering, Dmitry Shparo, Nikolai Kolomeitsev, Semyon Dezhnyov, Stepan Makarov, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Georgy Rybin, Otto Schmidt, Artur Chilingarov, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Oskar Victorovich Stark, Eduard Toll, Vladimir Voronin, Fyodor Matisen, Mikhail Lazarev, Matvei Gedenschtrom, Konstantin Badygin, Alexander Kuchin, Ivan Papanin, Valerian Albanov, Georgy Brusilov, Fedot Alekseyev Popov, Anatoly Sagalevich, Vladimir Rusanov, Mikhail Vasilyev, Alexander Konrad, Boris Vilkitsky, Mikhail Lavrov, Georgy Sedov, Georgy Ushakov, Yuri Senkevich, Mikhail Tebenkov, Vasily Chichagov, Nikifor Begichev, Pyotr Anjou, Rudolf Samoylovich, Dmitry Laptev, Pyotr Shirshov, Ernst Krenkel, Alexey Tryoshnikov, Nikita Shalaurov, Yevgeny Fyodorov, Semion Chelyuskin, Khariton Laptev, Aleksei Chirikov, Mikhail Somov, Ivan Lyakhov, Fyodor Matyushkin, Gleb Shishmaryov, Pyotr Pakhtusov, Mikhail Babushkin, Yakov Sannikov, Avgust Tsivolko, Yevgeny Tolstikov, Yakov Gakkel, Pavel Senko, Fyodor Minin, Aleksandr Dralkin, Vladimir Sanin. Excerpt: Dmitry Shparo (born 1941) is a Russian Arctic explorer and endurance skier. He is internationally known for twice reaching the North Pole on snow skis. In 1979, Shparo led the first ski expedition from Eurasia to the North Pole. In 1988, he completed a full traverse across the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Canada via the North Pole. In 1998, Shparo and his son, Matvey, became the first people in modern times to ski across the Bering Strait, from Russia into North America. Dmitry Shparo was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1941, shortly after the Soviet Union was invaded by German troops. Shparo was the son of Igor and Nina (nee Gimers) Shparo. His father was a journalist and a fiction writer, while his mother was a mathematician. In 1927, when Shparo's mother was only three years old, her father was ...
