Pyotr Petrovich Shirshov (Russian: Пётр Петрович Ширшов; 25 December [O.S. 12 December] 1905 in Ekaterinoslav – 17 February 1953 in Moscow) was a Russian Soviet oceanographer, hydrobiologist, polar explorer, statesman, academician (1939), the first minister of Ministry of Maritime Fleet of the USSR and Hero of the Soviet Union (1938).
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1905 Ekaterinoslav, Russian Empire
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1953 (aged 47) Moscow, USSR
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