Nikolai Pinegin information

Nikolai Vasilyevich Pinegin
Photograph taken in 1905
Native name	Николай Васильевич Пинегин
Born	(1883-04-27)27 April 1883 Yelabuga, Russian Empire
Died	18 October 1940(1940-10-18) (aged 57) Leningrad, Soviet Union
Occupation	Writer artist explorer
Children	Olga Vladimirovna Chertkova Vladimir Vladimirovich Chertkov

Nikolai Vasilyevich Pinegin (April 27 (May 10), 1883, Yelabuga, Yelabuzhsky Uyezd, Vyatka Governorate, Russian Empire – October 18, 1940, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR) was a Russian and Soviet writer, artist, Arctic explorer. He was a member of the expedition of G. Y. Sedov on the ship "St. Martyr Foka".^[1]

He was born in the family of a provincial veterinarian. He began his education in the Vyatka real school, continued it in the Perm gymnasium, from which he was expelled. Nikolai Pinegin began to earn his own living at the age of 17. He entered the Kazan Art School, and in 1907, passed the exams to the Academy of Arts, but could graduate only in 1916. In 1909, he made his first trip to the Murmansk coast of the Kola Peninsula. In 1910, he took part in a trip to the northern tip of Novaya Zemlya, where he met G. Y. Sedov; in the same year he exhibited his paintings at the Academic Exhibition in St. Petersburg. In 1912–1914, he took part in the expedition of G. Sedov as an artist, photographer and cameraman. Sedov. On the basis of the materials collected during the expedition he made the first Russian film on Arctic themes and a number of paintings and sketches. Since 1916, he was an artist of the Black Sea Fleet, headed an art studio in Simferopol.

In 1920 he emigrated to Constantinople. From there he went to Prague and Berlin, where he worked as a theater artist and illustrator. In 1922, in Berlin, with the support of M. Gorky, he published his expedition diaries under the title "In the Icy Vastness". In 1923 he returned to the USSR and in the following year he took part in the Northern Hydrographic Expedition, making surveying flights together with B.G. Chukhnovsky. In 1927–1930 he led the expedition of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR to Big Lyakhovsky Island, where he wintered in the polar station established at Cape Shalaurov. Due to the failure of the expedition ship to Yakutia, the polar explorers had to return to the Arctic winter on their own. After his return, N. Pinegin worked at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, where he founded the Arctic and Antarctic Museum and served on the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Arctic Institute. In 1932 he led an expedition on the icebreaker "Malygin" to Rudolf Island. In 1935 he was arrested, "as a former White Guard" was sentenced to five years of exile in Kazakhstan, but in the same year after the intervention of K. Fedin and V. Wiese was released, although he was not released. Wiese was released, although he was not rehabilitated. Due to the impossibility of working in academic structures, he returned to artistic and literary work. He died after a long illness, not having had time to finish the documentary novel "Georgy Sedov". Nikolai Pinegin is buried in the Volkovo Lutheran cemetery, his body was transferred to the Literary Bridges in 1950. A number of geographical objects bear the name of N. V. Pinegin.