At 81° North Latitude: Notes of a Participant in the 'Krasin' Expedition.

Vorontsova, Liubov [At 81° North Latitude: Notes of a Participant in the 'Krasin' Expedition]. Na 81° Severnoi Shiroty: Zapiski uchastnika ekspeditsii 'Krasina'.  Series Biblioteka zhurnala "Iunyi proletarii". Preface by I. Ivanov. Leningrad, Izdatelstvo "Krasnaia gazeta", 1929. 8vo, 80 pp., ill. In original pictorial wrappers. In good condition, light wear to cover, small cracks to spine. First and only edition. On May 25, 1928, the airship Nobile crashed on the Arctic Ocean ice, marking one of the greatest tragedies in aviation history and triggering the first major international search and rescue operation. Responding to the distress call, the Soviet Union, with its excellent resources, dispatched three Arctic icebreakers: the 'Malygin', the 'Sedov', and the 'Krasin'. The 'Krasin' was under the command of Professor Rudolf Samoylovich, an Arctic explorer and a personal friend of Nobile. Despite facing propeller failure, the Soviet icebreaker 'Krasin' managed to successfully rescue th