sentences:  In 1940 Badigin was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his work aboard the "Sedov" as both a naval officer and a scientist.Between 1941 and 1943 he became the Chief of the Soviet ice-breaker fleet in the White Sea as well as the director of the Ice Survey Service.In 1944 and 1945 he became the captain of merchant liner "Clara Zetkin" which plied the Vladivostok-Seattle route.