Moscow, Mar, 23.
High Soviet titles were to-day conferred on the four Soviet scientists who were recently rescued from a drifting ice-floe in the Arctic region after a dramatic race against time by three ice-breakers. Each was also awarded a money prize of 30,000 roubles, M. Ivan Pabanin was the head of the North Pole Meteorological Expedition and his companions were M. Krenkel M, Shirshov and M. Fedorov. Thousands recently flocked to an exhibition here called "Papanin's Camp," which vividly depicted the life of the four Soviet scientists on their drifting ice-floe. It was held at the Gorky Park of Culture and Rest.—Reuter.
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