Biography of Krenkel

Born on December 9 24 in the city of Bialyok of the Grodno province now as part of Poland in the family of an inspector of a commercial school. In the year, together with his family, he moved to Moscow. He studied at a private reform gymnasium at the Swiss Church in Moscow. During the First World War and Civil Wars, he was forced to leave his studies and go to work: he worked as a laborer, packaging of parcels, an Afisha, assistant to an electrician.

In the year, he graduated with honors from annual courses of radio telegraphists in Moscow. From the year he worked at the Lyubertsya reception radio station. In the years, he worked as a radio operator at the first Soviet polar observatory Matochkin ball archipelago New Earth. In the years he served in the Red Army - a radio operator of the radio telegraph battalion Vladimir.

After dismissal to the reserve in November and did not find work in Moscow in Moscow, but took up amateur short -wave radio stations. Since the year - again the radio operator of the polar observatory Matochkin ball. In the wintering of the years, for the first time in history, he conducted over -the -end sessions of radio communications on short waves. In the year - a radio operator on the Taimyr hydrographic vessel, at which he held a long expedition in the Barents Sea.

From the end of the year he worked at the Central Research Institute of Communications. He participated in numerous Arctic expeditions: in the year on the George Sedov icebreaker, in the years-in the wintering station at the polar station of the Tikhaya Archipelago, the Earth of the Franz-Joseph, in the German conducted by the Graf Zeppelin, in the Sibiryaks steamer, B-on the Soviet airship “B-3”.

B - a participant in the ship's ship "Chelyuskin", after the death of the vessel, provided the radio communications of the ice camp of O. Schmidt with the mainland. He set a world record of radio communications on long waves in the year, became one of the most famous Soviet polar explorers and radio operators. The radio operator E. Krenkel, together with I. Papanin, was the leader, E. Fedorov, Geophysik and P.

Shirshov, the oceanologist participated in the drift at the first Soviet drifting station North Pole - 1 from May 21 to February 19. During the drift, he showed courage and the highest skill. After the establishment of a special distinction, he was awarded the Golden Star medal. From the year - head of the department of polar stations of Glavsevmorputi. During the Great Patriotic War, E.

Krenkel carried out important instructions for the command of Glavsevmorputi - led the evacuation of children of polar explorers from Moscow, participated in the transfer of the Arctic Institute and other divisions of Glavsevmorputi from the besieged Leningrad. During the stay of the Main Directorate of Severmorput in the deep rear, he continued to work as the head of the headquarters.

In the year, E. Krenkel was suddenly removed from work in Glavsevmorput. After several months of forced idleness in the same year, he was appointed director of the Moscow Radio Plant. From a year until the last day he worked at the Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Instrumentation: the head of the laboratory, the head of the department, from the year - the director of the institute.

In years-the head of the campaign of the research vessel "Professor Zubov" in Antarctica. Krenkel managed to combine work at the institute with great social activities: for many years and until the end of his life he was chairman of the USSR Radio Sports Federation, a permanent chairman of the All -Union Philatelic Society. The doctor of geographical sciences lived in the city of Moscow.

He died on December 8th. He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. He was awarded 2 orders of Lenin by his name by the bay near the island of Komsomolets in the Archipelago Northern Land, the polar hydrometeorological station on Haisa island, the Franz Joseph Archipelago, the Central Radio Lub in Moscow, the Museum of Radio and Radio Ludge in Moscow, the electrical engineering of communication in St.

Petersburg in the years, the scientific and research marine ship Hydrometeorological services. A memorial plaque was installed on the house where he lived in Moscow. Numerous international competitions in the radio sports of his name are held.