103 FEDEROV 



Office: Dept. of Geological and Geographical Sciences of 



USSR Academy of Sciences 



Leninskii Prospekt, 14 



Moscow, USSR 

 Residence: Leninskii prospekt, 13 



Moscow, USSR 

 Telephone: V2 44 49 



FEDEROV, YEVGENII KQNSTANTINOV^ICH (Geophysicist) 



Ye. K. Federov was born April 10, 1910. In 1932 he gradu- 

 ated from Leningrad University. He worked as a magnetologist 

 in Polar stations on the Land of Franz and Joseph in 1932-33 

 and on the Cape of Chelyuskin in 1934-35. As a geophysicist- 

 astronomer in 1937-38, he participated in the operations of the 

 first Soviet drifting scientific station, "North Pole-1." From 

 1939 to 1947 he was in charge of the Hydrometeorological 

 Service of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers. Fedorov worked 

 from 1947 to 1955 at the Institute of Applied Geophysics of the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and in 1955 became Director of 

 that Institute. He became a member of the Communist Party of 

 the Soviet Union in 1938. In 1939 he was elected a Correspond- 

 ing Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and in 1960 an 

 Academician. Also in 1960 he became Chief Scientific Secretary 

 of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences Presidium; however, in 

 December 1962 it was announced that Federov was relieved of 

 his position of Chief Scientific Secretary of the Presidium of 

 the Academy of Sciences and reassigned as Chief of the U.S.S.R. 

 Council of Ministers Main Administration of Hydrometeorologi- 

 cal Services. He has been Chairman of the Soviet delegation of 

 Experts on Control of Atomic Tests. In 1938 he was made a 

 Hero of the Soviet Union. 



His main investigations are concerned with magnetology, 

 meteorology and practical astronomy. 

 Bibliography: 



Astronomical definitions. Works of a Drifting Station "North 



Pole," 1, 209-334. Leningrad: 1940. 



Meteorological instruments and observations. Works of a 



Drifting Station "North Pole," 2, 5-30. Leningrad-Moscow: 



1941-45. 



Main problems of hydrometeorological services, General 



Session of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, July 1-4, 1946. 



Moscow-Leningrad: 1947, 93-110. 



The influence of atomic explosions on meteorological 



processes. Atomic Energy, 1956, #5. 



