Yuly Shokalsky

July Schokalski Mikhailovich (Russian Юлий Михайлович Шокальский, scientific transliteration Julij Michajlovič Šokal'skij; * 5 Oktoberjul / October 17 1856greg in Saint Petersburg, .. † March 26, 1940 in Leningrad ) was a Russian- Soviet oceanographer and cartographer.

Schokalski was born the son of a St. Petersburg lawyer. He was the grandson of Anna Petrovna core (1800-1879), a well-known muse of Alexander Pushkin. After completion of the Russian Seeoffiziersschule and the Naval Academy, he was appointed professor at the Seekriegsakademie. He remained in this position in the Soviet Union until 1930. From 1925 to 1940 Schokalski taught at the University of Leningrad. In 1925 he became a corresponding member, and in 1939 an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. From 1923 to 1932 he led several oceanographic expeditions to the Black Sea and participated in the development and exploration of the Northern Sea Route. From 1917 to 1931 Schokalski was president of the Russian Geographical Society.

His name forward for seven geographic features in the polar seas, such as the Schokalski Island, Schokalskistraße that separates the island from the Bolshevik October Revolution Island ( Severnaya Zemlya ), or the Schokalskibucht, on the east side of Alexander Island ( Antarctica ) located near Cape Brown.

According to him, the Akademik Shokalskiy has been designated a built in 1982 in Finland research vessel, which is now used for Antarctic cruises.