DOI: 10.31806/2542-1158-2020-4-2-41-54
УДК: 93/94
Norwegian sailors on Dikson: following the footsteps of the Roald Amundsen expedition on the schooner Mod (1918‐1983)
Sedelnikov Valery Georgievich, Dvoretskaya Anna Pavlovna
Siberian Federal University
Abstract. Norway and Russia are neighboring states linked by thousands years period of cooperation in the fields of culture, science, and economics. The common ground for our countries is the study, development of the Arctic – the northern territories of planet Earth. This article sheds the light on one of the episodes of the struggle of brave polar explorers with the northern nature – the heroic expedition of Roald Amundsen by the schooner «Mod» in 1918-1920. and death of two sailors – participants of the campaign – Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen near Dikson. It is noteworthy that the historiography of events was open to myth-making, and the historical memory formed with its participation inevitably included mythological versions of the past. The authors, abandoning the well-established versions of these events, turn their eye to the evidence of that era – the reports and reports of N. A. They are trying to build their own interpretation of what happened during these years at Dikson, to Begichev, records about the course of the expedition’s searches, unpublished articles and eyewitness accounts, and expertise from 1920-1983 deposited in the funds of the Russian State Archives of Economics. Documents and materials indicate that the remains of a Norwegian sailor, found in 1922 by the expedition of Urvantsev-Begichev, belonged to Peter Tessem, who was able to overcome the most difficult route from Cape Chelyuskin to Dikson and died tragically several kilometers from the purpose of his campaign. However, the body of the second sailor was never found, and the version of his death in Mikhailova Bay was not seriously substantiated. Attracting new information from documents on search expeditions is also important to maintain the establishment of the truth about the death of polar explorers. This aspect is part of the cultural memory of the northerners. The documents testify to the voluntary assistance provided by the residents of Taimyr – both Russian and indigenous inhabitants of the tundra.
Keywords: Amundsen, Begichev, Arctic, Yenisei North, Dixon, collective memory of the Arctic.
For citation: Седельников, В. Г. Норвежские моряки на Диксоне: по следам экспедиции Руаля Амундсена на шхуне “Мод” (1918-1983 гг.) / В. Г. Седельников, А. П. Дворецкая // Северные Архивы и Экспедиции. – 2020. – Т. 4, № 2. – С. 41-54. – DOI 10.31806/2542-1158-2020-4-2-41-54. – EDN GRGXDY.
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