North Pole-5 Station in the Arctic

Arctic. May 23, 1955. Station chief, holder of the Order of the Red Star, holder of the Order of the Badge of Honor, holder of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, holder of the Medal "For Labor Valor", geographer and hydrologist Nikolai Aleksandrovich Volkov raises the State Flag of the USSR at the polar explorers' camp of the drifting station "North Pole-5" in the waters of the Arctic Ocean. Vasily Egorov/TASS