About the book: 2005 / Vladimir Aleksandrovich Rusanov (1875–1913) - an outstanding explorer of the Russian North and a brave traveler. A major geologist, he was the first to directly study Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya He became the first in a galaxy of our compatriots who paved the way for the development of the fossil riches of the Arctic. A man of a complex and tragic fate, whose work received international recognition during his lifetime, Rusanov remained for Russian polar explorers an example of a brilliant organizer and brave scientist who managed to predetermine many achievements of Russian science.