Konyukhov Fedor Fedor Konyukhov was born on December 12, 1951 in the fishing village of Chkalov on the shores of the Azov Sea. His father, a simple fisherman, comes from the White Sea, his mother is Bessarabian. Even in his earliest childhood, when he was asked what he wanted to become, Fyodor would certainly answer that he would be a traveler, like Georgy Sedov, a hydrographer, a polar explorer. In 1912, on the ship "Saint Foka" he organized an expedition to the North Pole.