TO THE 110th ANNIVERSARY OF ALEXANDER VASIL’EVICH ZHIVAGO

Abstract

August 14, 2024 marks the 110^th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Vasilyevich Zhivago, a participant in the first voyages on the research vessel “Vityaz” to the Black and Okhotsk Seas and the research vessel “Ob’ ” to Antarctica. Alexander Vasilyevich was a geomorphologist, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, professor, laureate of the USSR State Prize (1971), Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (1992). Honored Scientist (1998) and Honorary Polar Explorer (1994). Member of the editorial boards of the Atlas of the Oceans and the Atlas of Antarctica. He is one of the Russian scientists whose works created marine geomorphology. From the early 1950s to the late 1980s in the regions of the Southern and Pacific Oceans during the voyages of the research vessels of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, A. V. Zhivago and his colleagues studied in detail the features of the morphostructure, tectonics of underwater elevations, deep-sea trenches and faults. For many years, Professor Zhivago taught a course in geomorphology and physical geography at the Institute of Geodesy, Aerial Photography and Cartography. A. V. Zhivago worked for 30 years in the laboratory of geodynamics and paleoceanology at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.