"John" seems to like to have his picture taken: the "Taimyr" and Vlasov's "N-224" plane are seen in the background. On February 19, at 5.30p.m. the drifting "North Pole" station finished its work. The heroic Papanin quartet was removed from the drifting ice-floe in the Greenland Sea by the crews of the two ice breakers, "Taimir" and "Murman". February 14, 1938. (Photo by Soyuzphoto).