Museum - memorial named after R.L. Samoilovich

It was opened in 1981 in the house where the future revolutionary, Arctic explorer and director of the All-Union Arctic Institute, as well as the enemy of the people Rudolf Lazarevich Samoilovich, who was shot in 1939, was born and lived.

In the museum you can learn about the life and activities of an outstanding polar scientist, whose name is the Strait on Franz Josef Land, an island in the Kara Sea, a bay on the Northern Land, a mountain, a cape and a peninsula in Antarctica. R.L. Samoilovich, the future famous explorer of the Arctic, founder of the Arctic Institute in Leningrad, was born in Azov in 1881. In 1928, he led an expedition on the icebreaker Krasin to save Umberto Nobile and his compatriots. The name of Samoilovich became known to the whole world. In the 30s, Doctor of Geographical Sciences R.L. Samoilovich was one of the leaders of the Geographical Society of the USSR and the Aeroarctic Society, a member of the international maritime arbitration and an honorary member of the geographical societies of the USA, Sweden, Austria.

Unfortunately, now the name of R.L. Samoilovich is undeservedly forgotten, he was shot in 1939, rehabilitated in 1957.