Grigoriev Alexander

Born in 1848, Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics Faculty of St. Petersburg University (1870) with 1871. professor of anatomy and physiology of plants in the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology. In 1876, Mr.. accompanied by Professor NP. Wagner on the White Sea. The results obtained with dragirovkami, transferred to St. Petersburg University, observing the same physical phenomena of the White Sea and Murmansk are printed in "Proceedings of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society" for 1878. Grigoriev, incidentally, proved that the assumption of the branch entering the Gulf Stream in the White Sea incorrect. In 1879, Mr.. Grigoriev was sent from the Geographical Society on an expedition, equipped with the means п?.п?. Sibiryakova, a steam schooner "Nordenskiold" in order to circumnavigate the continent of Asia from the south and come to the aid of Baron AE. Nordenskiold, zazimovavshemu while the ship "Vega" off the coast of Siberia. Along the coast of the Japanese island of Esso schooner ran aground; succeeded, however, to save the compiled collection, and Grigoriev, using a forced stopover in Japan engaged in ethnographic research on the mysteries. Back in 1880. in Russia, Grigoriev brought a gift collections of: Zoological - Imperial Academy of Sciences, and ethnographic - Geographical Society. In the same 1880. Grigoriev elected secretary of the department of ethnography Geographic Society. In the next 1881, on the occasion of the International Geographical Congress in Venice, combined with Geographic exhibition, Grigoriev was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Russian section of the exhibition, which his works owes its outstanding success. In 1883, Mr.. Grigoriev elected secretary of the Society, which has and still. In 1886. Grigoriev again visited Solovetsky Islands, and in 1887, Mr.. participated in the expedition of the Geographical Society of New Earth, where they were collected natural history collections transferred to the Museum of the Academy of Sciences. In 1889, Mr.. Grigoriev was one of the delegates at the Society Geographical Congress in Paris. He owns many of the notes in the editions of society in geography, mainly the northern outskirts of Europe and Asia. YU. Sh