Pavel Golovin

{{Infobox military person

|name = Pavel Golovin

|birth_date = 26 April 1909

|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1940|4|27|1909|4|26}}

|birth_place = Naro-Fominsk, Russian Empire

|death_place =

|placeofburial=

|image = Павел Георгиевич Головин.jpg

|caption =

|nickname =

|allegiance = {{USSR}}

|branch =

|serviceyears =

|rank =

|commands =

|unit =

|battles =

|awards = Hero of the Soviet Union
Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner
Order of the Red Star

|relations =

|laterwork =

}}

Pavel Golovin (26 April 1909 – 27 April 1940) was a Soviet polar aviation pilot and colonel.{{Cite web |title=Головин Павел Георгиевич |trans-title=Golovin Pavel Georgiyevich |url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=1157 |access-date=22 December 2015 |website=www.warheroes.ru |language=Russian}}

Biography

Golovin was the world's first pilot to fly an airplane over the North Pole, on 5 May 1937.{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |date=May 22, 1937 |title=North Pole Crossed by 11 Soviet Flyers; Nearby Landing Made |newspaper=The Sun (Baltimore MD) |page=1}} The first flight over the North Pole had been made in the dirigible Nord by pilot Umberto Nobile and polar explorers Lincoln Ellsworth and Roald Amundsen on May 13, 1926.{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |date=May 22, 1937 |title=Air Expedition of Soviets Flew Over North Pole; Landed Safely On An Ice Floe 13 Miles From the Pole, Agency Reports|newspaper=Standard Sentinel (Hazleton PA) |page=1}}

Awards and honors

A street in his city of birth, Naro-Fominsk, is named after him.

References

Category:1909 births

Category:1940 deaths

Category:Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents

Category:Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery

Category:Heroes of the Soviet Union

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner

Category:Soviet Air Force officers

Category:Soviet test pilots

Category:Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1940

Category:Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the Soviet Union