Alexey Tryoshnikov

Alexey Fyodorovich Tryoshnikov (Russian: Алексе́й Фёдорович Трёшников; (14 April 1914 – 18 November 1991), also spelt Aleksei Fedorovich Tryoshnikov and published as A. F. Treshnikov, was a Soviet oceanologist, geographer, and researcher. He was also a polar explorer and leader of the 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition and the 13th Soviet Antarctic Expedition.

Alexey Fyodorovich Tryoshnikov, also spelt Aleksei Fedorovich Tryoshnikov, was born on 14 April 1914 in Pavlovka, Karsunsky Uyezd, Simbirsk Governorate, Soviet Union.

He received a Doctorate of Geographical Sciences.

Tryoshnikov was an oceanologist, geographer, and researcher.

Tryoshnikov was involved in defending the Northern Sea Route during World War II and participated in the Soviet Antarctic Expedition.^{[citation needed]}

Between 1954 and 1955, he was the leader of the North Pole-3 ice station in the Arctic Ocean.^{[citation needed]} He headed the drifting station Severny Polyus-3 (North Pole-3).

He led the 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition in November 1956 and the 13th Soviet Antarctic Expedition from 1967 to 1969.

Tryoshnikov supported a new scientific direction — the theory of self-organization and self-regulation of natural systems D-SELF. He submitted his first scientific articles, as A. F. Treshnikov, in this scientific field to the Reports of the Russian Academy of Sciences (DAN – Doklady Academii Nauk).