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KALESNIK, STANISLAV VIKENT'EVICH (Geographer) 



S. V. Kalesnik was born January 23, 1901. He graduated 

 from Leningrad University in 1929, where he became a pro- 

 fessor in 1938. In 1940-1959 he was scientific secretary, and 

 in 1952 he became vice president of the All-Union Geographical 

 Society. In 1953, he was elected a Corresponding Member of 

 the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 



Kalesnik' s main research is concerned with glaciology, 

 geomorphology and geology of Central Tien Shan, Dzhungarskii 

 Alatau, and also with general glaciology and physical geogra- 

 phy. He studied signs of regressive phases in the evolution of 

 glaciers, and introduced new ideas and terminology (chiono- 

 sphere, energy of glaciation) into glaciology. 



Kalesnik has been Director of the Laboratory on Limnology 

 since 1955. 

 Bibliography: 



Mountainous and Glacial Regions of the U.S.S.R. Leningrad- 

 Moscow: 1937. 



General Glaciology. Leningrad: 1939. 

 Basis of General Geography, 2nd ed. Leningrad: 1955. 

 Short Course in General Geography. Moscow: 1957. 

 Office: 1) Laboratory of Limnology 



Naberezhnaya Makarova 2 

 Leningrad, USSR 

 2) Department of Geography 

 Leningrad University 

 Krasnaia ulitsa, 60 

 Leningrad, USSR 

 Residence: ul. prof. Popova 4, Apt. 3 

 Leningrad, USSR 



KANTORQVICH, LEONID VITALEVICH (Mathematician) 



L. V. Kantorovich was born January 19, 1912. He graduated 

 from Leningrad University in 1930, and received the degree of 

 Doctor of Physical -Mathematical Science in 1935. From 1930- 

 1939, he taught at the Leningrad Institute of Industrial Con- 

 struction Engineers. He began teaching at Leningrad University 

 in 1932, and became a professor there in 1934. He has been 

 working at the Leningrad Branch of the U.S.S.R. Academy of 

 Sciences Institute of Mathematics since 1940. In 1958, he was 

 made a Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of 

 Sciences. He was the recipient of a Stalin Prize in 1949, for 

 work on functional analysis. 



