Pavel Golovin
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Template:Infobox military person Pavel Golovin (26 April 1909 – 27 April 1940) was a Soviet polar aviation pilot and colonel.[1]
Biography
Golovin was the world's first pilot to fly an airplane over the North Pole, on 5 May 1937.[2] The first flight over the North Pole had been made in the dirigible Nord by pilot Umberto Nobile and polar explorers Lincoln Ellsworth and Roald Amundsen on May 13, 1926.[3]
Awards and honors
A street in his city of birth, Naro-Fominsk, is named after him.
References
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- ↑ Головин Павел Георгиевич. Retrieved 22 December 2015 from www.warheroes.ru
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