![]() ![]() ![]() Supplies were abundant, so officers and crew prepared themselves for wintering, hoping to be freed in the following year's thaw. The expedition was ill-planned and ill-executed by Captain Brusilov, and the Saint Anna became locked in the polar ice of the Kara Sea in October 1912. He served on board a number of ships before signing on as navigator aboard the Saint Anna under Georgy Brusilov for an expedition intended to traverse the Northeast Passage (a feat which had only been successfully performed once before, by the Finnish explorer Nordenskiöld). ![]() At the age of seventeen he entered the Naval College at Saint Petersburg, from which he graduated in 1904. Albanov and Konrad approaching Saint Foka in their kayak, minutes before their rescueĪlbanov was born in 1881 in Voronezh and was raised by his uncle in the city of Ufa. ![]()
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