Yevgraf Yevgrafovich Fyodorov

Yevgraf Yevgrafovich Fyodorov (Russian: Евграф Евграфович Фёдоров; 20 November [O.S. 8 November] 1880 in Saint Petersburg - 19 June 1965 in Moscow), was a Russian climatologist. He was a son of Russian mathematician Yevgraf Fyodorov^[1].

Graduation from the University of Saint Petersburg 1910. Researcher in the Magneto-Meteorological Observatory, Pavlovsk 1911-1934, professor of geography with the USSR Academy of Sciences 1934-1951. Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1946.^[2]

Fyodorov's main contribution consisted in detailed development in descriptive climatology, with a metod to describe local climates in terms of daily weather observations.^[3]

Bibliography

• Climate as an aggregate of weather. Journal of Meteorology, #7 (1925).
• Distribution and type of precipitation in the plains of the European part of the USSR in the summer. Works of the USSR Academy of Sciences Institute of Geography, #28 (1938).
• with A. I. Baranov: Climate and Weather of the European Part of the USSR. (1949).

Biography

Ya. I. Feldman: Yevgraf Yevgrafovich Fedorov. Izvest. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. Geogr., #1 (1956).

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