Boris Izmailovich Sreznevsky ( March 19 [31], 1857 - March 24, 1934 ) - Russian and Soviet meteorologist; son of the Slavic I. I. Sreznevsky , brother of V. I. Sreznevsky ; Ordinary professor at Yuryev University in the Department of Physical Geography and Meteorology ( 1894 - 1918 ), Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR ( 1920 ).
| Boris Izmailovich Sreznevsky | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | March 19 (March 31 ) 1857 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Date of death | March 24, 1934 (aged 76) |
| Place of death | |
| A country | Russian Empire, USSR |
| Scientific field | meteorology |
| Place of work | Yuriev University |
| Alma mater | St. Petersburg University (1879) |
| Awards and prizes | gold medal named after Count Tolstoy |
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Biography
Born in 1857 in the family of philologist I.I. Sreznevsky . In 1879 he graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of St. Petersburg University . He served at the Main Physical Observatory ( 1882 - 1892 ), the lists of which were later listed as an assistant director over the state. Since 1888, as a private assistant professor at St. Petersburg University, he lectured on meteorology for three years. In 1892, he was appointed to Moscow as a private assistant professor. In 1893 he was awarded the degree of Doctor honoris causa from Yuryev University and since 1894 he was appointed as an ordinary professor and director of the meteorological observatory. Since 1899 he was dean of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics.
For the first time in 1879 he made a speech in the field of science about the evaporation of droplets, at the Seventh Congress of Naturalists. The dissertation published in 1882 is devoted to the same subject.
In 1890, he took part in the founding of the Meteorological Bulletin of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society ; since 1899, he was editor of this journal. As the head of observatories, he published monthly “Meteorological Observations”, first in Moscow, then in Yuriev, and since 1900 he took over the scientific management of the meteorological network of the imperial Livonian Economic Society. In 1902 he became a laureate of the Small Lomonosov Prize . In 1907 he was awarded the Imperial Russian Geographical Society a gold medal named after Pyotr Petrovich Semenov [1] . Since 1919 he was director of the Kiev Meteorological Observatory.
Proceedings
He published many articles on meteorology in Russian and German publications.
- “Barometric elevation determination in European Russia based on new isobars” (in Russian and German)
- “On Storms in the Black and Azov Seas” (translated into German; awarded the gold medal named after Count Tolstoy from the Academy of Sciences)
- “On the paths of cyclones” (two memoirs)
- “Weather Surveys in European Russia 1891–92” (awarded a small gold medal from the Imperial Russian Geographical Society) and subsequent years
- The relationship between absolute humidity and air temperature in St. Petersburg . - St. Petersburg, 1891.
- Investigation of snow drifts on railways in Russia from a meteorological point of view. - SPb .: Type. br Panteleev, 1890. - 11 p.
- works on the application of the latest successes of meteorology to aeronautics, instructions for the production of barometric altitude determination (in 1891, on behalf of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society).
In addition to special scientific works, he printed and did readings on music. Contemporaries knew him as a gifted musician, a brilliant pianist, who from childhood showed his vivid musical abilities.
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Source
- Sreznevsky, Boris Izmaylovich // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.