Mikhail Babushkin (1893 — May 18, 1938) was a Soviet polar aviator, a Hero of the Soviet Union

Hero of the Soviet Union

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 (June 27, 1937).

Mikhail Babushkin was born in a village of Bordino (which was merged into the city of Moscow

Moscow

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 in 1960), started military service in 1914, graduated from Gatchina

Gatchina

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 aviation school (one of the first Russian aviation schools) in 1915. Since 1923 he served in the Arctic aviation. He took part in an a expedition to rescue Umberto Nobile

Umberto Nobile

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 In 1928, and in the Chelyuskin expedition

Chelyuskin steamship

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 in 1933. He took part in the flights to the Soviet drifting ice station

Soviet and Russian manned drifting ice stations

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 "North Pole-1" in 1937. In 1937-1938, Mikhail Babushkin participated in a search for Sigizmund Levanevsky

Sigizmund Levanevsky

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. He died in 1938 in a flight accident and was interred at the Novodevichy Cemetery

Novodevichy Cemetery

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Mikhail Babushkin was also a recipient of the Order of Lenin

Order of Lenin

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. A district of Moscow (in the area where he was born) and the Babushkinskaya

Babushkinskaya

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station of the Moscow Metro are named after him.