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On August 9, 1977, at eight o'clock in the evening, the inhabitants of Murmansk solemnly saw off the largest nuclear icebreaker Arktika on a special voyage. Yury Sergeevich Kuchiev stood on the captain's bridge.

He was born on August 26, 1919 in the village of Tib, North Ossetia. In the mountains it seems that the sky is very close, you can stretch out your hand and you can reach out, and therefore, from childhood, Yuri Sergeevich dreamed of flying. In 1938 he graduated with honors high school No. 27 in Ordzhonikiz. And I went to enter the flight school. But they didn't take him. His father, Sergei Kuchiev, was the People's Commissar of Agriculture in North Ossetia, an old communist. Repressed in the late thirties, later rehabilitated. The stigma of the son of an enemy of the people destroyed Yuri's cherished dream of a career as a military pilot. And then, by some miracle, he got an appointment with the head of the Polar Aviation Directorate Hero Soviet Union Mark Ivanovich Shevelev. Mark Ivanovich was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from the constituency, which included North Ossetia. Mark Ivanovich listened to the boy who came to him and said:
- You know, my advice to you is to go to Dixon as a sailor, cook among real people ... And there will be help for your mother.
Kuchiev followed his advice and on June 5, 1941, Yuri Kuchiev was enrolled as a sailor on the tugboat Vasily Molokhov.
And then the war began. And Yuri Sergeevich was part of the convoys of the Northern Fleet. He graduated from navigator courses (1944), in absentia - Leningrad Higher Engineering maritime school named after Admiral S. O. Makarov (1963). From 1944 to 1962 - assistant captain of the icebreakers "Ermak", "Malygin", "Sibiryakov", "Ilya Muromets", "Krasin".

From 1962 to 1971 - the captain of the icebreakers "Murmansk", "Kyiv", the backup captain of the nuclear icebreaker "Lenin", since 1964 - the captain of this icebreaker. It was there, on the "Lenin", that the famous meeting of the two Yurievs - Kuchiev and Gagarin took place. Gagarin was a guest of the world's first nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin. Kuchiev went on the icebreaker as an understudy for the captain. They spent several hours with Gagarin. They were wonderful hours: the first cosmonaut told various funny stories, asked about the Arctic. When Gagarin and Kuchiev, carried away by the conversation, were sitting on the couch, someone took a picture of them.

Then Kuchiev admitted that since childhood he dreamed of becoming a pilot.
- Comrade commander, - Gagarin was surprised, - why do you need a pilot? Such a ship! Yes, it can do wonders!
Since 1971, Kuchiev became the captain of the nuclear icebreaker Arktika.
Experienced, endowed with the talent of a sailor, Kuchiev absorbed by that time, having passed the Arctic universities, the knowledge of many famous polar captains. They prepared, led him to this step, because they also always lived with a dream - to break through to the North Pole ...

And finally, on August 9, 1977, the captain of the Arktika took her on a flight that will go down in history forever.

And on August 17, 1977, at four o'clock Moscow time, Yuri Sergeyevich Kuchiev for the first time in the history of navigation, breaking through the ice fields and the cover of powerful multi-year ice, brought a surface ship to the North Pole. “I experienced an absolutely extraordinary excitement,” says the legendary Yu.S. Kuchiev, “when I brought the flagpole to the North Pole, which the famous polar explorer Georgy Sedov, who died on Rudolf Island, did not carry to the Pole.
This shaft was found at his grave."

The Arctic has submitted to the persistent horseman.

"A fair man. A very good captain..." Principled, honest, strong-willed. Demanding on the crew…" - this is how all those who worked with him on icebreakers spoke about Kuchiev. He was loved and respected.

Until 1997, Kuchiev at sea, then retired.

The rest of his life he worked at the Baltic Shipyard. With designers, shipbuilders: I looked through the drawings, gave advice, offered my own solutions. The sailor, who had stood on the captain's bridge all his life, was getting used to the land. This is a difficult task, especially for a person of such character.

And with a purely Ossetian temperament, he shot out the words:
“Everything irritates me on the shore. I feel badly on the shore. Badly! Everywhere is full of people, some kind of confusion. I can’t get used to it. I even go to the factory on foot - I don’t take a bus. "But at sea, there is order, exemplary order. Everything is clear and measured there. A person cannot get out of the rhythm to which he has been accustomed for decades. It is impossible!"

He died in 2005. According to the will, his ashes and the ashes of his wife, who died in 1999, were solemnly delivered to the sea near the North Pole by the crew of the Yamal nuclear icebreaker on August 19, 2006.
He dreamed of the sky, but conquered North Pole- this was Yuri Sergeevich Kuchiev.

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Yuri Sergeevich Kuchiev(Oset. Kuchity Sergey Firt Yuri ; August 26, the village of Tib, now the Alagirsky district of North Ossetia - December 14, 2005, St. Petersburg) - an Arctic captain who was the first to reach the North Pole. Hero of Socialist Labor ().

Biography

In 1938 he graduated with honors from secondary school No. 27 in Ordzhonikidze, and in 1941 he was enrolled as a sailor on the tugboat Vasily Molokov in the port of Dikson. During the Great Patriotic War, he was part of the convoys of the Northern Fleet. He graduated from navigator courses (), in absentia - the Leningrad Higher Marine Engineering School named after Admiral S. O. Makarov (). From to 1962 - assistant captain of the icebreakers "Ermak", "Malygin", "Sibiryakov", "Ilya Muromets", "Krasin".

Awards and Titles

• Hero of Socialist Labor ().
• Cavalier of the medals "For the Defense of the Soviet Arctic" and "For the Victory over Nazi Germany".
• Honorary captain of the nuclear-powered ship "Arktika".
• Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
• Medals "For labor distinction", "For the defense of the Soviet Arctic", "For the victory over Germany", "300 years of the Russian fleet".
• He was awarded a number of industry awards and titles: “Honorary Worker navy”, “Honorary polar explorer”, “Honorary member Geographic Society”, “Honorary citizen of the city of Ordzhonikidze”.

Memory

The name of Yuri Kuchiev is:

• school number 27 in Vladikavkaz.
• street in the Prigorodny district of the city of Vladikavkaz
• an island in the Franz Josef Land archipelago (since November 26, 2008).

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The general, behind whom Pierre rode, went downhill, turned sharply to the left, and Pierre, losing sight of him, jumped into the ranks of the infantry soldiers walking ahead of him. He tried to get out of them first to the right, then to the left; but everywhere there were soldiers, with equally preoccupied faces, busy with some invisible, but obviously important business. Everyone was looking with the same dissatisfied questioning look at this fat man in a white hat, for some unknown reason, trampling them with his horse.
- Why does he ride in the middle of the battalion! one shouted at him. Another pushed his horse with the butt, and Pierre, clinging to the pommel and barely holding the shy horse, jumped forward the soldier, where it was more spacious.
There was a bridge ahead of him, and other soldiers were standing by the bridge, firing. Pierre rode up to them. Without knowing it himself, Pierre drove to the bridge over the Kolocha, which was between Gorki and Borodino and which, in the first action of the battle (taking Borodino), was attacked by the French. Pierre saw that there was a bridge ahead of him, and that on both sides of the bridge and in the meadow, in those rows of hay that he noticed yesterday, soldiers were doing something in the smoke; but, in spite of the incessant shooting that took place in this place, he did not think that this was the battlefield. He did not hear the sounds of bullets squealing from all sides, and the shells flying over him, did not see the enemy who was on the other side of the river, and for a long time did not see the dead and wounded, although many fell not far from him. With a smile that never left his face, he looked around him.
- What does this one drive in front of the line? Someone shouted at him again.
“Take the left, take the right,” they shouted to him. Pierre took to the right and unexpectedly moved in with the adjutant of General Raevsky, whom he knew. This adjutant looked angrily at Pierre, obviously intending to shout at him too, but, recognizing him, nodded his head to him.
– How are you here? he said and rode on.
Pierre, feeling out of place and idle, afraid to interfere with someone again, galloped after the adjutant.
- It's here, right? May I come with you? he asked.
“Now, now,” the adjutant answered and, jumping up to the fat colonel who was standing in the meadow, handed something to him and then turned to Pierre.
“Why did you come here, Count?” he told him with a smile. Are you all curious?
“Yes, yes,” said Pierre. But the adjutant, turning his horse, rode on.
“Here, thank God,” said the adjutant, “but on Bagration’s left flank there is a terrible frying going on.
– Really? Pierre asked. – Where is it?
- Yes, let's go with me to the mound, you can see from us. And it’s still tolerable with us on the battery, ”said the adjutant. - Well, are you going?
“Yes, I am with you,” said Pierre, looking around him and looking for his bereator with his eyes. Here, only for the first time, Pierre saw the wounded, wandering on foot and carried on a stretcher. On the same meadow with fragrant rows of hay, through which he had passed yesterday, across the rows, awkwardly turning his head, lay motionless one soldier with a fallen shako. Why didn't they bring it up? - Pierre began; but, seeing the stern face of the adjutant, who looked back in the same direction, he fell silent.
Pierre did not find his bereytor and, together with the adjutant, rode down the hollow to the Raevsky barrow. Pierre's horse lagged behind the adjutant and shook him evenly.
- You, apparently, are not used to riding, count? the adjutant asked.
“No, nothing, but she jumps a lot,” Pierre said in bewilderment.
- Eh! .. yes, she was wounded, - said the adjutant, - right front, above the knee. Bullet must be. Congratulations, Count,” he said, “le bapteme de feu [baptism by fire].
Passing through the smoke along the sixth corps, behind the artillery, which, pushed forward, fired, deafening with its shots, they arrived at a small forest. The forest was cool, quiet and smelled of autumn. Pierre and the adjutant dismounted from their horses and walked up the mountain.
Is the general here? asked the adjutant, approaching the mound.
“We were just now, let’s go here,” they answered him, pointing to the right.
The adjutant looked back at Pierre, as if not knowing what to do with him now.
"Don't worry," said Pierre. - I'll go to the mound, can I?
- Yes, go, everything is visible from there and not so dangerous. And I'll pick you up.
Pierre went to the battery, and the adjutant rode on. They did not see each other again, and much later Pierre learned that this adjutant's arm had been torn off that day.
The barrow that Pierre entered was that famous one (later known by the Russians under the name of the kurgan battery, or Raevsky battery, and by the French under the name la grande redoute, la fatale redoute, la redoute du center [large redoubt, fatal redoubt, central redoubt ] a place around which tens of thousands of people were laid and which the French considered the most important point positions.

17.08.2017

40 years ago, a nuclear-powered icebreaker reached the North Pole for the first time in the history of navigation.

On August 17, 1977, stunning news spread around the world: for the first time in the history of surface navigation, the nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika made an experimental breakthrough to the North Pole. The icebreaker was confidently driven by our countryman - Yuri Kuchiev.

People, with bated breath, every day listened to reports about the progress of the icebreaker. Everyone, young and old, wished the expedition a success. There were numerous traffic jams, the icebreaker fell into the grip of giant ice floes, the weather was not favorable for the expedition. The situation was so difficult that the head of the expedition, Minister of the Navy of the USSR T.B. Guzhenko said, addressing Yuri Kuchiev: “I do not intend to interfere in your actions, because I believe in the high professionalism of the crew. Work confidently, and if trouble happens, we will both answer.” Everything ended well: the Arktika crew reached the North Pole. It was a victory for the mind, science, will and character of the Soviet people. The motherland highly appreciated the feat of the polar explorers, awarding them orders and medals.

Kuchiev was then compared with his friend and namesake Yuri Gagarin. This trip showed the limitless possibilities of the nuclear icebreaker fleet. On September 14, 1977, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR “For outstanding services in the preparation and implementation of the experimental voyage of the nuclear icebreaker Arktika to the North Pole region and the courage and heroism shown at the same time”, Yuri Sergeevich Kuchiev was awarded the title of Hero Socialist Labor.

On August 26, 2017, Yuri Sergeevich Kuchiev, the polar captain of the Lenin and Arktika nuclear-powered icebreakers, Hero of Socialist Labor, would have turned 99 years old. Our famous countryman gave 54 years of his life to serve in the navy and 40 of them to active navigation in the ice of the Northern Sea Route.

Yuri Sergeevich was born in North Ossetia, in the village of Tib on August 26, 1919. His father, Sergei Timofeevich, was the People's Commissar of Agriculture in North Ossetia. In 1938 he was repressed. In 1956 he was rehabilitated posthumously. Mother, Khetagurova Lyubov Vasilievna, from the village of Nar. Housewife, laconic, wise, modest mountain girl. The spiritual potential of an active young man was formed under the predominant influence of the heroics of the Red Army and especially its air forces.

In that terrible year of 1938, associated with the repression of his father, Yuri graduated with honors from the 27th school in the city of Vladikavkaz with the only dream of becoming a fighter pilot. It was written in the certificate: “Based on the decision of the Council People's Commissars USSR and the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) Kuchiev Yuri Sergeevich enjoys the right to enter high school without entrance exams", but due to the repression of the father, all the doors educational institutions countries slammed before him: he was denied admission to the Air Force Academy. Zhukovsky (at that time, excellent students of secondary schools had such a right), to the school of military pilots, to the Moscow State Technical University. Bauman.

Just before the war, a thin guy came to the head of the Polar Aviation Directorate, Hero of the Soviet Union Mark Ivanovich Shevelev. He came as a deputy - Mark Ivanovich was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from the constituency, which included North Ossetia. The guy dreamed of aviation and turned to a man who flew a lot - he will surely understand. He will understand that trouble has happened - they did not take him to the aviation school. And how to continue to live if the dream is unattainable? Mark Ivanovich listened to him and said

You know, my advice to you is to go to Dixon Island as a sailor, cook among real people ... And there will be help for your mother.

On June 5, 1941, Yu. Kuchiev, at the suggestion of M. I. Shevelev, was enlisted as a sailor on the tugboat "Vasily Molokhov", then served as a junior officer on the ships of the Arctic fleet, during the war years he went in convoys, sailed on the icebreaking ships "Taimyr", " Malygin, Sibiryakov.

In 1944, Yuri graduated from the courses of navigators of small and long-distance navigation, then the State Maritime Academy named after Admiral S.O. Makarov. In 1962–1963 was the captain of the icebreakers "Murmansk" and "Kyiv", the understudy of the captain of the nuclear icebreaker "Lenin", and in 1964 Yuri Kuchiev was appointed captain of the icebreaker "Lenin". It was on it that he "reconnoitered" the approaches to the northern point of the planet when he led the icebreaker "Vladivostok" to the eastern sector of the Arctic. And the idea that it is possible to break through to the Pole on such ships finally matured in Kuchiev. Since then, his entire subsequent life, including during the Great Patriotic War, has been associated with the Russian Arctic Fleet.

On June 5, 1971, Yuri Sergeevich was approved as the captain of the Arktika nuclear icebreaker under construction, which he commanded for 10 years. Experienced, endowed with the talent of a sailor, Kuchiev absorbed by that time, having passed the Arctic universities, the knowledge of many famous polar captains. They prepared, led him to this step, because they also always lived with a dream - to break through to the North Pole ... In the Arctic, they said about Captain Kuchiev that he was one of the most risky captains. Someone even drew a cartoon: Kuchiev prancing among the ice on an icebreaker, as if on a horse...

From March 1981 to June 1995 Kuchiev Yu.S. worked onshore as part of the Murmansk Shipping Company, was engaged in the design and construction of nuclear icebreakers at the Baltic Shipbuilding Plant in St. Petersburg. His experience in the Navy was 54 years. The homeland highly appreciated the labor and military feat of Yu.S. Kuchiev. He was awarded with orders Lenin, Red Banner of Labor, World War II degree, medals "For the defense of the Soviet Arctic", "For the victory over Germany". He was an honorary polar explorer, an honorary worker of the navy, an honorary member of the Geographical Society, an honorary captain of the nuclear icebreaker Arktika. By the decision of the executive committee of the Ordzhonikidze City Council of Workers' Deputies No. Honorable Sir city ​​of Vladikavkaz. Having taken a well-deserved rest, Yuri Sergeevich lived in St. Petersburg for many years, often came to North Ossetia, and did a lot of work on patriotic and international education. Yuri Sergeevich Kuchiev died on December 17, 2005.

On September 14, 1977, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "For outstanding services in the preparation and implementation of the experimental flight of the nuclear icebreaker" Arktika "to the North Pole region and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, Yuri Sergeevich Kuchiev was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. From March 1981 to June 1995 Kuchiev Yu.S. worked onshore as part of the Murmansk Shipping Company, was engaged in the design and construction of nuclear icebreakers at the Baltic Shipbuilding Plant in St. Petersburg. His experience in the Navy was 54 years. The homeland highly appreciated the labor and military feat of Yu.S. Kuchiev. He was awarded the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, the medals "For the Defense of the Soviet Arctic", "For the Victory over Germany". He was an honorary polar explorer, an honorary worker of the navy, an honorary member of the Geographical Society, an honorary captain of the nuclear icebreaker "Arktika". By the decision of the executive committee of the Ordzhonikidze City Council of Workers' Deputies No. 25 dated January 25, 1983, Kuchiev Yuri Sergeevich was awarded the title "Honorary Citizen of the City of Vladikavkaz". Having taken a well-deserved rest, Yuri Sergeevich lived in St. Petersburg for many years, often came to North Ossetia, and did a lot of work on patriotic and international education.

Throughout his life, he was devoted to the sea, the Arctic and his companion, his wife Ninel Konstantinovna. After the death of his wife in February 1999, Yu.S. Kuchiev bequeathed to his friends to fulfill his last will - to betray his and his wife's ashes to the waters of the Arctic Ocean.

“You know very well that I have always been and remain a romantic to the end and do not regret it at all. And Dixon Island, the Arctic Ocean and the North Pole are directly related to our common fate with Ninel Konstantinovna, ”Kuchiev wrote in his will.

The management and staff of the Murmansk Shipping Company, the sailors of the nuclear icebreaker fleet considered it their sacred duty to fulfill the last will of the captain, the pioneer of the Arctic latitudes, whose name was rightfully included in the golden fund prominent people Russia.

Urns with ashes Yu.S. Kuchieva and N.K. Kuchieva were brought to the North Pole region by sailors of the Murmansk Shipping Company aboard the Yamal nuclear-powered icebreaker and solemnly put to sea. The Yamal nuclear-powered icebreaker went on a voyage on August 13, 2006. It is symbolic that this date coincided with the 29th anniversary of the Arktika nuclear-powered ship arriving at the Pole on August 17, 1977.

An unusual ceremony was held with the participation of acting Arctic captains. Only after consulting with them in the North Pole region, a helicopter took off from the Yamal nuclear icebreaker and lowered the urns with the ashes of the captain and his faithful companion into the waters of the ocean. Yuri Kuchiev glorified himself and his native land for centuries.

“Together with my fellow polar explorers, I have been serving people through the Arctic, the main storehouse of Russia's national wealth, all my adult life.

Confirmation of this is the greeting addresses of the Murmansk residents, composed, of course, in hyperbolic tones, but in essence confirming the life credo of a person who conscientiously fulfilled the international mission of Ossetia in the Arctic! And this is not at all a surge of cheap vanity, but a natural consequence of the deep conviction of the people of my generation.

And it’s great, it means that life has not been lived in vain!” (Yu.S. Kuchiev).

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Kuchiev Yury Sergeevich

(26.08.1919-14.12.2005)

Outstanding Soviet ice captain,

Born in the village of Aib, now Alagirsky district of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. During civil war his father was a red partisan, then director of the Ardon machine and tractor station, rose to the post of people's commissar of agriculture of the republic. In 1938 he was arrested and shot. The stigma of the son of an enemy of the people prevented Kuchiev from entering a flight school.

Shortly before the war, Kuchiev, having secured a letter of recommendation from Mark Ivanovich Shevelev himself, left for Dikson. He began work in the Arctic as a sailor of the tug "Vasily Molokov", sailed as a junior officer on various ships, in 1943/1944. wintered on Dikson.

After graduating in 1944 from the courses of navigators of small navigation, Kuchiev became the 3rd assistant to the captain of the icebreaker Taimyr, participated in convoys, after the war until 1962 he worked as an assistant to the captain of the icebreakers Ermak, Malygin, Sibiryakov, Ilya Muromets, Krasin.

In 1963, Kuchiev graduated in absentia from the LVIMU named after S.O. Makarov, after which he already held captain's positions: 1964-1971. 1966-1968 - Captain's understudy and captain of the nuclear-powered icebreaker "Lenin", 1966-1968. - Captain of the icebreaker "Krasin". The pinnacle of Kuchiev's production career was the position of captain of the Arktika nuclear-powered icebreaker, which he took in 1971, when the ship was still under construction. Until the moment of its entry into service, the captain formed an excellently trained and well-coordinated team. He conducted the entire complex of tests of the nuclear-powered ship and achieved its acceptance by the commission with an "excellent" rating. In 1976, the Arktika, led by Kuchiev, rescued the Ermak icebreaker with the Kapitan Chizhevsky dry cargo ship and the Leningrad icebreaker with the Chelyuskin transport from ice captivity.

On August 17, 1977, an event took place that forever inscribed the name of the Arktika nuclear-powered icebreaker and its captain in the history of Arctic exploration. For the first time, a surface vessel in active navigation managed to reach the North Pole. From Murmansk the course was laid. Skillful piloting, maximum use of the vessel's capacity, constant aviation ice reconnaissance made it possible to carry out this voyage in thirteen days instead of the planned twenty-eight. Almost fifteen years passed before a foreign ship reached the Pole. The success of the Arktika contributed to the accelerated development of the Soviet nuclear icebreaker fleet. For this historic flight, Kuchiev was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor and the Hammer and Sickle gold medal. In addition, the merits of Kuchiev were awarded orders andand several medals, including "

Died in St. Petersburg. Back in 1999, after the death of his wife Ninel Konstantinovna Kuchiev made a will in which he asked his friends and associates in the nuclear icebreaker fleet to fulfill his last will after his death - to betray his ashes and the ashes of his wife to the waters of the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole. “You know well that I have always been and remain a romantic to the end and do not regret it at all. And Dixon, the Arctic Ocean and the North Pole are directly related to our common fate with Ninel Konstantinovna,” Kuchiev wrote in his will.

The will of Kuchiev was carried out. On August 13, 2006, almost exactly 29 years after reaching the Pole, the Yamal nuclear-powered icebreaker delivered the urns to the point 89° 59.38′ N . and 65° 37.03'E , where, after the mourning meeting, they were lowered into the lead.

the archipelago of Franz Josef Land, formed as a result of the separation of the southwestern part of Northbrook Island. It was discovered in early 2008 during the expedition of the Yamal nuclear icebreaker. Named p decision of the Arkhangelsk Regional Assembly.