My grand grand father was Ivan Papanin, a Russian Polar Explorer, Scientist, Counter Admiral, twice Hero of the Soviet Union awarded nine Orders of Lenin. Together with researchers Ernst Krenkel, Evgeny Fedorov and Petr Shirshov he was in charge of the famous expedition North Pole-1 that took place on a drifting ice-floes. Papanin's team carried out a wide range of scientific observations in the near-polar zone, until they saw the 4-funneled ship and mistook it for an icebreaker that should have taken them back from ice. After unsuccessful attempt of boarding the ship, expedition had to continue until they were taken back by the two icebreakers "Murman" and "Taimyr". It was the first expedition of its kind in the world. All members of the expedition received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, which was extremely rare before World War II. Just tellin' you people.