Jan Czerski

Ivan Dementjewitsch Tscherski (Russian: Иван Дементьевич Черский, scientific transliteration Ivan Dement'evič Čerskij, Polish form of the name in January Czerski, Russian derivation Ян Доминикович Черский / Jan Dominikowitsch Tscherski; * 3 Maijul / May 15 1845greg on the estate Swolna, Ujesd. . Drissa, Vitebsk (now Belarus ); † 25 Junijul / July 7 1892greg in Kolymagebiet, Russia ) was a polish- Russian geographer, geologist, paleontologist and explorer. ..

After his nationality poles, Tscherski is forcibly recruited for his participation in the Polish January Uprising 1863/64, the Russian army and exiled to Omsk in Western Siberia. To he begins the influence of Grigory Nikolaevich Potanin around Omsk with geological and paleontological investigations. 1869 Tscherski is released on medical parole from military service and moved in 1871 to Irkutsk. From 1873 to 1876 he lead expeditions in Sajan Sajan the foreshore, and the Angara region. 1877 to 1880 he studied the geology of the Baikal shore, in 1881 and 1882, the basin of the Selenga River and Lower Tunguska.

1878 Tscherski formulated the idea of an evolutionary development of the earth's surface. He presents one of the first paleotectonic schemes for Siberia, which was then " The Face of the Earth" (1883 ) was used and further developed by the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess in his work.

1885 Tscherski is amnestied and travels at the invitation of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Saint Petersburg. On the way he runs along the Post tract from Irkutsk to the Urals geological observations, makes trip to the Padun rapids of the Angara ( in place today, the Bratsk Reservoir is impounded ) and after Minusinsk.

In 1892 he dies during a 1891 expedition started in the river basins of the Kolyma Indigirka and on the lower reaches of the Kolyma River, near the confluence of the Omolon.

After Ivan Tscherski are named:

  • The Tscherskigebirge, a mountain range in northeastern Siberia
  • The Tscherskigebirge, a low mountain range in Transbaikalia ( Transbaikal region, between Ingoda and Oljokma )
  • Gora Tscherskogo ( Tscherskiberg ), the highest peak of the Baikal Mountains
  • The traversed by Kandat Tscherskital at the foot of Westsajan
  • Tscherski, a settlement in the Republic of Sakha ( Yakutia) ( near his death location)
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