LOST IN THE ARCTIC
SOVIET 'SCIENTISTS
SOLE SURVIVOR'S STORY
(Received July 6, 1.50 p.m.) 1 MOSQOW, July 5. After watching his nine companions succumb from exposure one by one in an open boat in the Arctic seas, Ivan Kryukov, the sole survivor of a Soviet scientific expedition, was picked up by a Russian ship. He related how the party's boat capsized in a storm in the Barents Sea after leaving the survey ship Toros, one being drowned. Theremainder righted the boat, climbed in, and: baled her out with their bare hands. Their equipment and provisions were lost. Kryukov, who was washed overboard many times, eventually managed to lash one of his arms to the boat.
The Government has given him a bonus and has granted a pension to the families of the victims.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 5, 6 July 1936, Page 9
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133LOST IN THE ARCTIC Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 5, 6 July 1936, Page 9
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