Lebedev, Svyatoslav Vladimirovich

Svyatoslav Vladimirovich Lebedev - Russian geodesist, doctor of technical sciences, professor.

Svyatoslav Vladimirovich Lebedev
Date of Birth	August 2, 1937 ( 1937-08-02 )
Place of Birth	Belgrade
Date of death	September 20, 2015 ( 2015-09-20 ) (78 years)
Scientific field	geodesy
Academic degree	Doctor of Technical Sciences
Awards and prizes

Born on August 2, 1937 in Belgrade ( Yugoslavia ).

He graduated from MIIGAiK (1963). He worked in the Trans-Baikal AGP (Chita) and the Institute "Hydroproject" named after S. Ya. Zhuk .

Since 1965, at the Department of Higher Geodesy MIIGAiK : graduate student, assistant, senior lecturer (1971), associate professor (1974), professor (1989).

Candidate of Technical Sciences (1971), Doctor of Technical Sciences (1988).

Main research interests:

• statistical methods and actual problems of studying the characteristics of the field of gravity,
• use of collocation methods
• practical tasks of inertial gravimetry and gradiometry,
• the study of the Earth as a planet and the connection of geodesy with geophysics, geodynamics, astrometry,
• solving problems of studying the movement of poles and features of the Earth’s rotation, creating coordinate systems, determining the crustal deformations, studying the surface of the World Ocean.

Honored Worker of Geodesy and Cartography of the Russian Federation , Honored Scientist and Technician of the RSFSR , Honorary Surveyor.

He died on September 20, 2015 (got lost in the forest and died, Pererva, Vyshnevolotsky District , Tver Region ).