Memorial Stamp picturing the radiotelegaphist Ernst Krenkel, stamped december 24th 1973.
E.Krenkel was a famous polar investigator, had saved 104 lives after an accident in the Arctic, was one of four men on an ice-floe which during 274 days drifted from the North Pole to Greenland, was appointed Hero of the Soviet Union, and was for many years chairman of the USSR Central Radio Club with hundreds of thousands of members. Like that club did, now the Central Radio Club of the Russian Federation wears his name. A bay on the coast of Komsomolets Island and one of the islands in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago are also named after him, and so is a polar hydrometerological observatory on the Heys island in Franz Josef's Land, a street in Moscow, a Communications Electro-Technical College in St. Petersburg and a weather research vessel of the Hydrometeorological Service Gidrometsluzhba.
