Pyotr Shirshov

Pyotr Petrovich Shirshov (Russian: Пётр Петрович Ширшов; 25 December [O.S. 12 December] 1905 in Ekaterinoslav – 17 February 1953 in Moscow) was a Soviet oceanographer, hydrobiologist, polar explorer, statesman, academician (1939), the first minister of Ministry of Maritime Fleet of the USSR and Hero of the Soviet Union (1938).

Pyotr Shirshov

Pyotr Petrovich Shirshov (Russian: Пётр Петрович Ширшов; 25 December [O.S. 12 December] 1905 in Ekaterinoslav – 17 February 1953 in Moscow) was a Soviet oceanographer, hydrobiologist, polar explorer, statesman, academician (1939), the first minister of Ministry of Maritime Fleet of the USSR and Hero of the Soviet Union (1938).