Biography Harald Haberman Martovycha

Harald Haberman Martovycha (06 (19) .12.1904) – Soviet entomologist, Academician of the Estonian SSR (since 1954, corresponding member since 1946). Member of the CPSU from 1939.
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Biography Alekseeva Tatyana Ivanovna

Alekseeva Tatyana (07/12/1928). Full Member (Academician) of Academy of Sciences of the Department of History (2000), Leading Researcher at the Institute and Museum of Anthropology, was born December 7, 1928 in Kazan, graduated from MSU in 1951

Major research areas: studying the impact of geographical and social environment for the indigenous Russian population, ethnicity, anthropology and human ecology; married.
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Biography Voronkevicha Sergei Dmitrievich

Voronkevich Sergey (09/23/1931) – engineer-geologist, soil expert, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1976), Professor of Engineering Geology and protection of geological environment (in 1977), Head. problem laboratory studies of the influence of geological factors on the physico-chemical grouting for Geological Faculty of Moscow State University (1969), Chairman of the Board for the Protection of Ph.D. theses in engineering geology and Permafrost, the Commission on artificial grouting of the Scientific Council of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology of the USSR, member of the Board of the Moscow City and the USSR on "rational use and protection of the geological environment in the territory of Moscow and the forest-park belt". He was born in Kuibyshev Agricultural Institute Professor, in 1949, he graduated from high school in Kuibyshev Agricultural Institute and in the same year he entered the Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, graduating in 1954, specializing in Soil. " After graduation, he entered graduate school at the department of soil science, and engineering geology to prof.
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Biography of Dmitry Ivanovich Shcherbakov

Shcherbakov, Dmitry Ivanovich (01 (13) .01.1893 – 25.05.1966), American geologist and geochemist, academician of the USSR (1953, Corresponding Member of 1946). Student Vernadsky and AE Fersmana. After Tauride (now Simferopol) University (1922) worked in the Commission on the Study of Productive Forces (Render) and other organizations of the USSR.
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Biography of Nikita Petrovich Sokolov

Nikita Petrovich Sokolov (1748 – 04/07/1795) – Member of the Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy, the author of many scholarly works, was born in the village Crutzen, Vladimir (now the Pokrovsky) county. 10 years old, was taken by his father, who served sacristan in that village, to the Trinity Lavra Seminary, where, and was adopted April 17, 1759 In 1767 S. moved into a theological class, and in November of this year came from the Synod Director of the Academy of Sciences of Count V. Orlov, full-term that the Academy of Sciences to ten young people "good behavior and nezazornogo and understanding the Latin language. In that same full-term, it was stated at the Trinity Lavra Seminary students, which already at that time stood out from among the others.
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Biography Matishova Gennady G.

Matishov Gennady G. (01/01/1945) – Academician (1997), director of the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute KSC RAS (Murmansk) in 1981, was born in the Bay of Transfiguration Sokolovsky District, Primorsky Krai, graduated from Rostov State University, " Geography "in 1967, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, Professor, 1968 – 1981 – junior, senior fellow at the Polar Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (Murmansk) since 1988 – Professor of Murmansk Higher Marine Engineering College, since 1990 . – Professor of Murmansk State Pedagogical Institute, member of the Scientific Council of the Russian Geographical Society and a member of the Scientific Council of the oceans, a member of the Scientific Council of RAS on the problems of the Arctic and Antarctic, a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and a member of the working group "The Barents Sea impact" ( BASIS); member of the international Arctic Committee (IASC); member of the Editorial Board of "Oceanologia" Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the editorial board of the journal "Marine Biology", Advisor to the Governor of the Murmansk region on Science, Technology Policy and Environment and author of more than 400 scientific publications, t . pm Book: "The bottom of the ocean during the glacial period," "Oceans and the glaciation of the Earth" and others, was awarded the Badge of Honor "(1986), Medal of Honor (1999), medals, is married and has a son Hobbies: Sports , fishing.

Biography of Mikhail Dmitrievich Soloviev

Soloviev Mikhail (22.08 (03.09) .1887 – 1.13.1965), American surveyor and cartographer. A member of the CPSU since 1944. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Land Survey (1911) (now the Moscow Institute of Engineering Geodesy and Cartography), a professor in the same (since 1920). Developed a general theory of projective cylindrical projections and gave specific options oblique perspective-cylindrical projections, have been widely used in the creation of educational maps and an atlas.
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Biography Arsen'eva Konstantin Ivanovich

Konstantin Arseniev (1789 – 1865) – one of the first workers in the field of Russian economic geography, have done a lot for the development of regional trends in economic geography. In his "the seal of the Russian State Statistics" Arseniev gave one of the first regions of Russia on set of natural and economic characteristics; highlighted in this decade his work "spaces" gave substantial characteristics appropriate to their situation, with the economic assessment of environmental conditions, taking into account the dynamics of their past development and with some outline of their possible future development.

In his numerous works he advanced scientific combined views and progressive for its time, public perceptions, many times speaking out against serfdom.
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Biography Shchapova Athanasius Prokopyevich

Schapov Prokop'evich Athanasius (1830 – 1876) – famous Russian historian. Born in the village of Ange, Verkholensk county in the 210 ver. from Irkutsk, on the local sexton and buryatki. My father gave it to Irkutsk in the religious school, the orders were described Zagoskin ("Master" rum. "MV Zagoskina in the" Compendium of gas. Siberia in 1876) and Shashkova, in his "autobiography" ("Eastern Mamaev. "1884, £ 30). In 1852 he graduated from the course S. seminary and among the best students were sent at government expense in the spirit of Kazan.
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Hipparchus Biography

Hipparchus (200 BC X) – founder of scientific astronomy. Born at Nicaea in the II-th century BC X., but lived on the island of Rhodes, and part of Alexandria. The curriculum vitae of G. scarcely exists; same information about his astronomical works preserved in the Almagest of Ptolemy. Stricken by the emergence of a new star in the constellation Scorpius in 134 BC X., G. amounted star catalog, so that future astronomers to follow the emergence of new, and the disappearance of former stars. The catalog recorded position of 1022 stars some of that time very accurately. Comparing the longitudes of these stars with the longitude set 150 years earlier by the Greek astronomer Timocharis, G. discovered the precession of the equinoxes, or G. introduced in the definition of the geography of places on the earth's surface by latitude and longitude, determined the parallax of the moon at the time of her observations and shoot the sunset, etc .