Ivan Dementjewitsch Tschersky
Ivan Dementjewitsch Tscherski ( Russian Иван Дементьевич Черский ., Scientific transliteration Ivan Dement'evič Čerskij , Polish name Form Jan Czerski, Russian derivation Ян Доминикович Черский / January Dominikowitsch Tscherski ; May 3 . Jul / 15. May 1845 greg. On the estate Swolna , Ujesd Drissa , Vitebsk (now Belarus ); † June 25 . jul / 7. July 1892 greg. in the Kolyma area, Russia) was a Polish-Russian geographer , geologist , paleontologist and explorer .
Due to his Polish nationality, Tscherski was forcibly recruited into the Russian army for his participation in the Polish January uprising in 1863/64 and exiled to Omsk in western Siberia. Under the influence of Grigory Nikolayevich Potanin , he began geological and paleontological studies in the Omsk area. In 1869 Tscherski was released from military service for health reasons and moved to Irkutsk in 1871 . From 1873 to 1876 he carried out research trips to the Sajan , the Sajan foreland and the Angara region . From 1877 to 1880 he investigated the geological structure of the banks of the Baikal , and in 1881 and 1882 the basins of Selenga and Lower Tunguska .
In 1878 Tscherski formulated the idea of an evolutionary development of the earth's surface. He presented one of the first palaeo-tectonic schemes for Siberia, which was then used and further developed by the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess in his work "The Face of the Earth" (1883).
In 1885, Chersky received an amnesty and traveled to Saint Petersburg at the invitation of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences . On the way he carries out geological observations along the post tract from Irkutsk to the Urals , makes detours to the Padun rapids of the Angara (where the Bratsk reservoir is now dammed) and to Minusinsk .
In 1892 he died during an expedition that began in 1891 to the Indigirka and Kolyma river basins on the lower Kolyma near the confluence of the Omolon .
The following are named after Ivan Tscherski:
- the Tscherski Mountains , a high mountain range in northeast Siberia
- the Tscherski Mountains , a low mountain range in Transbaikalia ( Transbaikalia region , between Ingoda and Oljokma )
- Gora Tscherskogo (Cherskiberg), the highest peak of the Baikal Mountains
- the Tscherskital at the foot of the West Sayan, through which the Kandat flows
- Chersky , a settlement in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) (near the place where he died)
- the Chersky rock near Listvyanka on Lake Baikal
- the ship Akademik Tscherski (also Akademik Cherskiy )
Web links
- Article Iwan Dementjewitsch Tscherski in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- Biography , Istorija mira (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Tscherski, Ivan Dementjewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Черский, Иван Дементьевич (Cyrillic); Czerski, Jan (Polish) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-Russian geographer and explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Svolna Manor, Ujesd Drissa , Vitebsk Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1892 |
| Place of death | Kolyma region , Russian Empire |