Senior Students of Vladivostok Polytechnic Institute On the Deck of a Ship During a Trip to the Ashio-Niko Copper Mine in Japan, Spring 1922. From the family archive of prominent geologist Mikhail Alekseevich Pavlov (1884-1938). While still a student, Pavlov took part in the attempted expedition to the North Pole in 1912-14, which was led by the Arctic explorer Georgii Iakovlevich Sedov (1877-1914). Along with his school and university friend Vladimir Iulevich Vize (1886-1954), who served as the expeditions geographer, Pavlov collected a large body of scientific data on the northern archipelago of Novaya Zemlya. The photographs date from approximately 1875-1929. They depict Pavlovs geological expeditions in Siberia and the Far East, expedition participants, views of nature, Pavlov during his school and university years, and his family members in various years. V.K. Arseniev Primorsky Regional Unified Museum