How it was 20.02.2002 (2002)

The program topic is "CLOSING THE NORTH POLE". 1948. Until the mid-80s of the twentieth century, it was officially believed that the Americans were the first to set foot on the North Pole.

Soviet polar scientists did not dispute the primacy, although they knew that the first to the North Pole were the participants of the SP-2 expedition.

The fact is that all Soviet research in the Arctic since 1948 was classified by order of Lavrenty Beria.

The polar explorers were to create a base at the North Pole that would coordinate a nuclear strike on the United States through the North Pole.

The expedition was secret.

In the event of its discovery by the Americans, the head of the expedition, Hero of the Soviet Union Somov M.M., was to personally shoot all the polar explorers.

Participants: Senko P.K. – discoverer of the North Pole, scientist, participant of the expedition "North-2" in 1948, Volovich V.G. - doctor, participant of the drift "North Pole-2" in 1954, Shcherbina V.G. - polar pilot, participant of Arctic expeditions, Kochetkov A.A. - cameraman, son of Kochetkov A.S. - Soviet documentary film cameraman.

Video: Chronicle of the exploration of the North Pole, Douglas DC-2 and LI-2 aircraft at the North Pole, passenger looking out the porthole, aircraft propeller, pilots in the snow, arrival of a train with heroic pilots in Moscow, people on Red Square meeting and greeting the cars, Stalin I.V. and Beria L.P., a flag with a portrait of Stalin, a secret folder with expedition documents, American paratroopers, a radio operator in headphones transmits Morse code, a polar explorer plants a flag, a secret map of the US Department of Defense, polar explorers sing the song "

Polar Waltz", tents at the North Pole, Beria Lavrenty on the platform.