The 125th anniversary of birth of N.N. Zubov

Nikolay Zubov (1885-1960) is a naval officer, hydrographer, oceanologist, Arctic explorer.  In 1935 he led the scientific part of the first Soviet high-altitude expedition on the icebreaker "Sadko".Nikolay Zubov made the great contribution to the development of the native oceanography. He was among the first to put forward and develop the problem of ice forecasting in the Arctic seas, he also founded the Department of Oceanology in Moscow Hydrometeorological Institute and Moscow State University.

The stamp depicts a portrait of N.N. Zubov and the icebreaker "Sadko".