Yevgeny Tolstikov

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After the expedition he worked as deputy chief of the State Committee for Hydrometeorological Service Management.[4][5]

A minor planet 3357 Tolstikov discovered by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos in 1984 is named after him.[6]

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