Feodosy Krasovsky
Feodosy Nikolayevich Krasovsky (
geodesist.[1] He was born in Galich. In 1900 he graduated from the Mezhevoy (land surveying) Institute in Moscow; in 1907 he began working as a lecturer there.[2]
Research work
At the end of 1928 the reference ellipsoid in the Soviet Union and other countries until the 1990s.[4] In 1939 Krasovsky became the Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
Krasovsky died in Moscow in 1948.
Awards
- Stalin Prize (1943, 1952 – posthumously)
- Order of Lenin (1945)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
See also
Citations and notes
References
- Gillispie Coulston, Charles, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, v.7, American Council of Learned Societies, Scribner, 1972
- Farbman, Michael, Europa, Europa publications limited, 1930
- Surveying and Mapping: quarterly publication of American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, v.23, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, United States Superintendent of Documents, Superintendent of Documents, 1963
- Guelke, Leonard, Cartographica, York University (Toronto, Ont.), Department of Geography, Canadian Cartographic Association, University of Toronto Press, 1971
External links
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