Аляска – Сибирь – трансконтинентальный воздушный мост Великой Отечественной войны (1941–1945 гг.) и его геопространственное обеспечение советскими геодезистами и картографами

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to find out the determining role and basic content of geospatial support of legendary airline Alaska – Siberia in the period of Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), its scientific and practical foundations, created in the period of prewar development of domestic geodesy, its organization structures, ensuring proper level of topographic and geodetic territorial knowledge of the country, and also scientific and industrial culture of its development. One of the most important objects of geo-spatial support in the prewar and initial period of the Second World War was the Alaska-Siberia transcontinental air bridge, which became the result and symbol of the military cooperation between the USSR and the USA, which delivered in the period 1942–1945 to Soviet Air Force about 10 thousand fighters, bombers and transport aircrafts, which played a huge and victorious role in the Second World War. The prewar achievements of Soviet geodesy and cartography in the field of topographic and geodetic knowledge of the country, minimization of "white spots" in the areas of the future air route, problems and solutions in relation to surveys, design and construction of airfields, which determined the required network of AlSib nodal points, are characterized. A number of names of participants in the creation of the route have been identified, among which, in particular, Safronov Sergey Niko-laevich, a surveyor engineer, later a well-known teacher and scientist, associate professor of NIIGAiK – SSGA, now SSUGT, was named.