Background
BABUSHKIN, Mikhail was born in 1893.
BABUSHKIN, Mikhail was born in 1893.
1915 graduate Gatchina Pilots School.
Fought in Civil War; from 1926 aerial reconnaissance for trapping outfits in the Arctic. 1928 member of expedition to rescue crew of ’’Italiya” airship. 1933-1934 participated in fateful Steamship Chelyuskin expedition (via North Sea Passage).
1935 participated in Arctic expedition on icebreaker Sadko 1937 as second flagship pilot flew to North Pole to land Papanin and other personnel of first polar station. Deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 1937 convocation.