Khvostikov, Ivan Andreevich

Born in 1906 in Tashkent (now Uzbekistan ). I. S. Shklovsky called I. A. Khvostikov the illegitimate son of Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich . From the beginning of the 1930s, he worked at the GOI and studied at graduate school . Pupil and employee S.I. Vavilova .

In 1934 he participated in the Elbrus expedition, flew on a substratostat.

At the end of 1934 he defended his thesis and in May of the following year, at the request of S. I. Vavilov, he was enrolled in doctoral studies ^[1] . Professor (1935). Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences .

In 1935-1946 the head. Laboratory of Atmospheric Optics, Institute of Geophysics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Leningrad, Moscow since 1941).

In 1943-1948, professor at the Department of Physics of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov .

Professor of VVIA named after N.E. Zhukovsky , Researcher of the GPIAS.

According to the information provided in the book: Shklovsky I. S. Echelon. Fictional stories. - M.: Novosti, 1991. - 222 p., Khvostikov was accused of rigging research results (using powerful military searchlights), passing off searchlight flares for silver clouds, and after exposing him, was deprived of the title of Stalin Prize laureate and dismissed from WWA .

Since 1964, the head of the silver cloud working group of the Interdepartmental Geophysical Committee.

He died of transient cancer on August 7, 1969 .

The author of studies explaining the high-altitude arrangement of silver clouds. In 1952, he put forward a hypothesis called condensation (or ice), according to which silvery clouds have a structure similar to the structure of cirrus clouds, consisting of ice crystals.

• Glow of the night sky. Responsible editor S. I. Vavilov. (Moscow - Leningrad: Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1937. - Popular science series)
• Glow of the night sky [Text] / I. A. Khvostikov. - M.; L.: 2nd type. Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1948 (M.). - 496 p., 19 l. silt : ill. ; 22 cm

In the 1960s, he published two large monographs:

• Physics of the ozonosphere and ionosphere. Moscow Publishing House Acad. Sciences of the USSR 1963.663 p., 3 p. silt silt 26 cm
• High atmospheric layers, [Text] Leningrad: Hydrometeorological Publishing House, 1964 .- 605, [2] c. .- il.

• Stalin Prize of the second degree (1949) - for scientific research in the field of atmospheric optics (1948)

• Ivan Andreevich Khvostikov. (1910-1969). Obituary. Bull. Abastum catastrophism , 1969
• Khvostikov Ivan Andreevich
• Shklovsky I. S. The Story of Hate
• Shklovsky I.S. Echelon. Fictional stories. - M .: "News", 1991. - 222 p.
• HISTORY OF ONE HATE