Yevgraf Yevgrafovich Fyodorov
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 - 19 June 1965 in Moscow
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), was a Russian climatologist. He was a son of Russian mathematician Yevgraf Fyodorov
Yevgraf Fyodorov
Yevgraf Stepanovich Fyodorov, sometimes spelled Evgraf Stepanovich Fedorov , was a Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist....

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

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

Biography

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