sentences:  As an engineer-oceanographer, he was directed to the Tiksi observatory of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.In 1965, he was elected first secretary of the Bulun Komsomol district committee.In 1969, he was appointed head of the drift ice station “North Pole-19” and, in 1971, Chilingarov headed the Bellingshausen Station of the 17th Soviet Antarctic Expedition.