Peter_Novopashenny

Peter Novopashenny (Russian: Пётр Алексеевич Новопашенный, Pyotr Alexeyevich Nowopashenny; German: Peter Novopaschenny) (* 18 March 1881 in Russia; † October 1950 near Orsha in Belarus) was before and during the World War I, a Russian Marine Officer and who worked as a cryptanalyst during World War II for the German Wehrmacht (OKW/Chi) cipher bureau, working on the Russian desk, deciphering enciphered Soviet communications.A glacier in Novaya Zemlya, part of the Nordenskiöld Glacier Group, was named after him.