Geographer, mathematician, astronomer: in Mogilev open an exhibition dedicated to the famous scientist Otto Schmidt

Mogilev Regional Museum of Local Lore named after E.R. Romanov invites you to visit the exhibition “Glory to the Mogilev Land: Otto Schmidt”, dedicated to the 135th anniversary of the scientist’s birth. Since September 18, the exposition can be seen in the exhibition hall of the Museum of Ethnography, told in the institution of culture.

Visitors will be presented with a fragment of the authentic interior of the office of the famous countryman, in which there will be furniture, books, equipment - a TV, radio, telephone. The exposition will also include documents and commemorative publications dedicated to the scientist, the museum said:

The central place will be occupied by materials illustrating the activities of Otto Schmidt as head of the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route. These are picturesque and graphic portraits of the scientist himself, as well as images of his friends-Cheluskinians and pilots who rescued them, plot paintings. The author of the works is the Soviet artist Fyodor Reshetnikov, who also became a member of polar expeditions on the icebreakers “Sibiryakov” in 1932 and the steamer “Chelyuskin” in 1933-34. These portraits are kept in Mogilev.

By the way, the name of Otto Yulievich Schmidt in 1967 was named Avenue in Mogilev. The memory of him is also immortalized in the name of the Institute of Earth Physics in Moscow, an asteroid, an island in the Arctic Ocean, a subglacial plain in Antarctica, a cape on the coast of Chukotka.

Otto Yulievich Schmidt was a Soviet encyclopedic scientist, mathematician, geographer, geophysicist, astronomer, polar explorer, academician and Hero of the Soviet Union. For numerous achievements in the field of Arctic research and major contributions to science, he was awarded a number of high state awards, including three Orders of Lenin and two Red Banner of Labor, as well as the Order of the Red Star. The exhibition of works by the Wanderers will be presented for the first time in Mogilev