Biography Bezobrazoff Vladimir Pavlovich

BEZOBRAZOV Vladimir Pavlovich (1828 – 1889). VP BEZOBRAZOV a figure of the Russian Geographical Society in the 50's and 60's of the XIX century.
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Bio Groom Grzhimailo Grigory Yefimovich

Groom Grzhimailo Gregory E. (05 (17) .02.1860 – 03.03.1936), American geographer, researcher of Middle and Central Asia, Honored Scientist of RSFSR (1928). In 1920-31 Vice-President of the Geographical Society of the USSR. Brother of VE Grum-Grzhimailo. Born to an economist. In 1884 he graduated from the natural sciences department of Physics and Mathematics Faculty of St. Petersburg University. Lecturer geography Asian universities of Leningrad.
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Biography Golovnina Vasily Mikhailovich

Golovnin Vassily Mikhailovich (04/19/1776 – 1831) from an old noble family of Ryazan province. His father and grandfather had served in the Transfiguration of the regiment, where, according to custom, the 6 th year of birth was recorded and a sergeant said.
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Biography Hanykova Yakov Vladimirovich

Khanykov Yakov Vladimirovich (1818 – 1862) – an outstanding cartographer and geographer, have done a lot for the study of the Orenburg region and adjacent territories of Kazakhstan and Central Asia, belonged to a talented family Hanykovyh. His younger brother Nikolai Khanykov – the famous orientalist, and another brother, – Alexander, Chernyshevsky fellow student at the Petersburg University, was in 1849 convicted and sent to the Orenburg region for participation in the circles Petrashevists.
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Bio-Zablotskyj Desyatovsky Andrew Parfenovich

Zablotskyj-Desyatovsky Parfenovich Andrew (1808 – 1881) AP-Zablotskyj Desyatovsky been an active proponent of the Russian Geographical Society in the first period of its existence. For many years he led the statistical office of the Company and was the initiator and organizer of several works of economic-geographical nature. Organized by them, as well as independently of ongoing studies focus on the task of studying the life and economic situation of the Russian people. Like other leading figures of the Company, he believed that such study is important in order to prove the necessity of the abolition of serfdom.
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Biography Maclay Nikolai Nikolaevich

Maclay Nikolai Nikolaevich (1846 – 1887) – the famous explorer, was educated in the 2 nd St. Petersburg. school, then at the University; continue their education, he went abroad, where they were printed and the first of his zoological work. In 1866 Maclay traveled to Madeira, Kanapskie Islands and Morocco, and in 1869 visited the shores of the Red Sea and in Asia Minor, mainly by studying the lower marine animals, sponges, polyps, etc. Back in Russia, he decided to go to almost unknown back then New Guinea and, with the assistance of Imperial. Russian translation.
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Biography Alexandrov Ivan Gavrilovic

Aleksandrov, Ivan Gavrilovic (1875 – 05/02/1936). IG Aleksandrov – an outstanding engineer and economist, researcher multifaceted nature and the economy of a number of economic areas the Soviet Union, one of the main participants of the plan electrification (1) and the draft economic regionalization of Russia, compiled by the State Planning Commission in 1921 (2).

His works were of great importance for the development of Soviet regional economic geography, as well as generally for the development of scientific methods of comprehensive studies of nature and farming areas, with their socialist reconstruction. In his report at the VIII All-Russian Electrotechnical Congress in Moscow, 1 -10 October 1921 on the economic regions of Russia (with a map of area) Alexandrov gave a new, Soviet, socialist, an active statement of this geographical problem, sopodchiniv its planned system of socialist economic development: "Regional Develop a plan of national economy "NK can establish a close link between natural resources, skills, people, culture accumulated by the previous values and new techniques and get the best combination of production, thus carrying on the one hand, the proper division of labor between the individual areas, but with the other – by organizing a large area in the combined economic system, what is achieved, obviously, the best economic result (1) – reported Alexandrov Congress. A month later, on November 5, he reported on behalf of the State Planning Commission draft zoning at a meeting of the Council of Labor and Defense to Lenin, in principle approved the report.
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Biography Pleshcheeva Sergei Ivanovich

Pleshcheyev Sergey Ivanovich (1752 – 1802) – each NI Novikova – was one of the successors to the beginnings MV Lomonosov Moscow State University in the field of geography. In its "Review of the Russian Empire …" is given a generalized description of the parts of Russia in accordance with its division into strips and compactly described with carefully selected materials of the country as a whole and its individual administrative units. Work Pleshcheeva characterized by sufficient geografichnostyu and was not like the description of a desk statistics of his time. In the development of geographical science it was a major step towards vperd works KI Arseniev. Pleshcheyev also known as the author vividly written notes on his trip to Syria. Pleshcheyev was born in Moscow. He came from an old noble family, in 1764, another 12-year-old boy who was determined to serve in the navy, and since then started and lasted almost a lifetime naval service, during which he traveled abroad. From 1765 to 1770 Pleshcheyev to study the practice of sailing ships sailed on the British fleet off the coast of North America. In 1770, during the First Russian-Turkish war, he was sent to the Russian fleet being transferred from the Baltic Sea to the Aegean Sea, prior to 1773 Pleshcheyev sail across the Mediterranean Sea. In 1773 he was transferred to St. Petersburg to serve in the Navy, the Baltic Sea. In 1773 was published his first work "Day notes travels from Archipelago, Russia belongs to the island of Paros, in Syria …». In 1775 he was sent to the embassy in Constantinople during this trip conducted an inventory and measurement of the Dardanelles, then an inventory of Sinop and Trabzon. While in Constantinople, Pleshcheyev that have, as he points out "with a number of books that belonged unto this journey, in 1776, translated from English into Russian" Journey agliyskogo Lord Baltimura Constantinople through Roumeli, to Bulgaria, Moldova, Poland, Germany and France in London "(1). He looked at this book as a guide "for the benefit of Russian envoys and travelers to Constantinople. In this regard Pleshcheyev translated the English into Russian actions, and included "in many places their own additions" for reference.
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Biography of Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldun (Ibn Op-Rahman Veli OD-din, nicknamed Khadra Eshbili, Seville) (1332 – 1406) – The famous Arab historian. By origin – commoner Having studied in his native city, Tunis, – the Koran, hedisy, law, grammar, piitiku, served the Sultan Fez.

The court intrigues forced him to go to Spain (1362), here he was a treatise on logic and a few poems, commissioned by the sultan of Granada, was negotiating peace with DonPedro Castile.
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Bio Rychkova Peter Ivanovich

Rychkov Peter Ivanovich (1712 – 1777). PI Rychkov – pupil Tatischev, contemporary Lomonosov – is among the largest Russian geographers middle of XVIII century. PI Rychkov, as SP Krasheninnikov, is credited with drawing up the first regional work on the geography of Russia, served as models for subsequent descriptions of individual parts of our country. Following VNTatischev, Rychkov in their geographical studies sought to be practically useful for the country's economic development.
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