Alexander Sergeevich Barkov

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Alexander Sergeyevich Barkow ( Russian Александр Сергеевич Барков ; born May 13 . Jul / 25. May  1873 greg. In Pokrovskoye, Rajon kimovsk ; † 28. December 1953 in Moscow ) was a Russian geographer and university professor .

Life

Barkow, son of the disabled sergeant a. D. and farmer Sergei Ignatjewitsch Barkow, attended 1886-1894 the Gouvernementsgymnasium Tula , which he graduated with honors. He then studied under Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Anuchin in the Department of Natural Sciences of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University (MGU) . Since 1897 he has carried out a private pedagogy internship. In 1898 he graduated with a gold medal and a first class diploma. In 1899 he began teaching geography at Moscow educational institutions, and in particular at the Moscow Higher Courses for Women . He was one of the first teachers of the trade school of the city of Moscow, founded on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Alexander II's reign (later the University of Chemical Engineering ).

1900–1904, Anutschin and his students Barkow, Sergei Grigorjewitsch Grigorjew , Alexander Alexandrowitsch Kruber and Sergei Wassiljewitsch Tschefranow illustrated chrestomathies on Asia , America , Africa , Europe , Australia , Asiatic Russia and European Russia. In 1903 Barkow and a group of co-authors published a course for beginners in geography. A geography course on Western Europe followed in 1905, followed by a course on the geography of Russia. In 1909, together with Alexander Alexandrowitsch Borsow, he created a series of methodology posters on the geography of Russia.

In 1911 Barkow became the director of AJ Fljorow's private high school. After the October Revolution , the grammar school became School No. 110, where he worked until 1925. From 1920 he headed the school department in the Moscow Department of Popular Education (MONO). From 1920 he participated in research expeditions in the Moscow Oblast , the Arkhangelsk Oblast and the Crimea (until the 1930s). From 1924 he taught at the Karl Liebknecht Institute for Industry and Education and at the Lenin Institute for Education , where, after being appointed professor from 1926 to 1941, he headed the Chair of Physical Geography and which was merged with the Karl Liebknecht Institute in 1937 . 1928-1937 he was editor of the physical geography department of the Great and Small Soviet Encyclopedia. On trips abroad he investigated the karst formation . In 1930 he led a geographic expedition in preparation for the construction of the Kuibyshev hydroelectric power station .

1931–1950 taught Barkow at the MGU. In 1935, together with Alexander Alexandrowitsch Polowinkin, he created a textbook on physical geography, which was translated into almost all languages ​​of the USSR by 1954 and had 18 new editions. In 1935 Barkow received his doctorate in geographic sciences without defending a dissertation . His manual of physical geography appeared in 1940 (last edition 1958). When the MGU was evacuated during the German-Soviet War 1941–1943 , Barkow taught at the Pedagogical Institute in Ashgabat . From 1943 he headed the chair for physical geography abroad at the MGU (until 1950). In 1944 he was elected as a real member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the RSFSR (APN). 1944–1947 he headed the cabinet for geography methodology of the APN.

Barkow was married to Gali Evgenjewna Iwakinskaja, born Klammer (1887-1960), who was an actress at the Moscow Children's Theater, joined various religious associations and the Freemasons and was observed by the NKVD in the 1930s . Barkov was buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery. The Barkow Glacier bears his name.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Соколов Н. И .: Александр Сергеевич Барков, его жизнь и деятельность . In: Вопросы географии . No. 40 , 1957, pp. 32-40 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e big-archive.ru: Александр Сергеевич Барков (accessed April 15, 2018).
  3. ↑ a b c d Летопись Московского университета: Барков Александр Сергеевич (accessed April 15, 2018).
  4. ↑ Жуков А.П .: Истоки научно-педагогических школ Университета Менделеева . РХТУ им. Д.И. Менделеева, Moscow 2010, ISBN 978-5-7237-0860-0 , p. 13 .
  5. ↑ AS Barkow; AA Polowinkin: Physical Geography: Textbook for 5th grade d. incomplete middle school and middle school . German State Publishers, Engels 1939.
personal data
SURNAME Barkow, Alexander Sergejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Барков, Александр Сергеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian geographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Pokrovskoye, Kimovsk Raion
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1953
Place of death Moscow