First, an exclusive pictures of the rescue of the North Pole expedition from their ice floe. These pictures, which had just arrived in London, the first (and exclusive) pictures of the rescue of the four Russian scientists and their dog, Jolly, from the small ice floe after they had drifted for nine months from the North Pole towards the coast of Greenland. The scientists, Ivan Papanin (leader), Ernest Krenkel (radio operator), Pyotr Shirshov (Marine biologist), Eugene Federov (astronomer), were taken from the ice camp by the Soviet icebreakers 'Taimir' and 'Murman' as the ice was crumbling beneath them and they were in grave danger. The first to reach the camp was Gennady Vlasov, the airman of the rescue expedition, who landed his plane on the ice. As these pictures show, the scientists seem to be in excellent physical condition and high spirits after their long sojourn amid the polar wastes. Photo shows, Ivan Papanin, the leader of the expedition, (right) with Gennady Vlasov, at the airman, who was the first to reach the scientists, on the ice floe as the expedition were rescued. 7 March 1938