Vladimir Mikhailovich Kotlyakov

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Vladimir Mikhailovich Kotlyakov (2009)

Vladimir Mikhailovich Kotljakow ( Russian Владимир Михайлович Котляков ; born November 6, 1931 in Lobnja -Krassnaja Polyana) is a Russian geographer and glaciologist .

Life

Kotlyakov attended Moscow Middle School No. 7 and received the silver medal upon graduation in 1949. His interest in geography was aroused during his school days by geographers and oceanologists and their stories. After finishing school, he studied at the geographic faculty of Lomonossow University Moscow (MGU). With Nikolai Andrejewitsch Gwosdezki he wrote his course work and his diploma thesis. After the first annual course, he took part in the student excursion to the West Caucasus . After the second year course he did an internship in the Crimean Mountains and after the third an internship in the taiga of the Sichote-Alin Mountains. He graduated in 1954 with a major in physical geography .

After graduation, Kotlyakov worked as a research assistant in the Moscow Institute of Geography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR, since 1991 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)). From the start, his interest was focused on exploring snow and ice . He took part in expeditions to the Arctic to Novaya Zemlya (1955-1956) and to the Antarctic (1957-1958). When Grigory Alexandrovich Avssyuk , who was one of the heads of the Soviet work for the International Geophysical Year , founded the Department of Glaciology in the Institute of Geography in the late 1950s, Kotlyakov became one of the first employees. In 1959 Avssyuk made him secretary of the department. In 1961 he defended his candidate dissertation , which was included in the large monograph published in the same year on Antarctica's snowpack and its role in the icing of the continent . In 1967, Kotlyakov defended his doctoral dissertation on the earth's snow cover and the supply of glaciers , in which he linked snow research with ice research for the first time. He led the expeditions to the southern slope of the Elbrus (1961–1963) and to the Transili-Alatau (1964). In 1968 Avssyuk handed him the management of the department of glaciology. The expedition to the Pamir followed (1968–1974).

In the 1970s, Kotlyakov's field of work expanded. The focus was on problems of the mass balance of the glaciers. When investigating glacier formation processes, taking into account size and shape, he treated glaciers as complex dynamic systems. He developed methods for assessing the avalanche risk . He initiated the project of a deep drilling at the Antarctic Vostok station in the ice above the Vostok Sea to extract an ice core for the study of climatic changes and played an important role in the implementation of the project carried out jointly with France . In 1976 he became a corresponding member of the AN-SSSR. In 1986 he became director of the Geography Institute, succeeding Avssyuk (until 2015, when Olga Nikolayevna Solomina succeeded him). In 1991 he was elected a real member of the RAN.

Kotlyakov was a member of the Nationality Soviet of the USSR from 1989-1991 and a member of the Committee on Ecology and the Rational Use of Natural Resources .

A glacier in the Transili-Alatau and a glacier in the Djungarian Alatau were named after Kotlyakov .

Memberships

Honors, prizes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Great Soviet Encyclopedia : Котляков Владимир Михайлович.
  2. ↑ a b c Institute for Geography of the RAN: Котляков Владимир Михайлович (accessed June 24, 2018).
  3. ↑ Большая российская энциклопедия: КОТЛЯКО́В (accessed June 24, 2018).
  4. ↑ Petit JR, Jouzel J., Raynaud D., Barkov NI, Barnola JM, Basile I., Bender M., Chappellaz J., Davis J. Delaygue G., Delmotte M. Kotlyakov VM, Legrand M., Lipenkov VM, Lorius C., Pépin L., Ritz C., Saltzman E., Stievenard M. (1999): Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica . Nature 399: 429-436
  5. ↑ RAN: Котляков Владимир Михайлович (accessed June 24, 2018).
  6. ↑ Roll of Honor: Recipients of IGU Honors and Awards, 1976-2013 (accessed June 30, 2018).
  7. ↑ Лауреаты Демидовской премии 2011 года (accessed June 24, 2018).
  8. ↑ Открытие Всероссийского съезда учителей географии ( Memento from January 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 24, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Kotlyakov, Vladimir Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Котляков, Владимир Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian geographer and glaciologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Lobnja -Krassnaya Polyana