Background
ASKNAZIY, Abram was born in 1887.
Meteorologist and weather forecaster
ASKNAZIY, Abram was born in 1887.
From 1911 worked at Main Physical Observatory, where under B.N. Mul’tanovskiy' he helped to develop first long-range weather forecasting system. After 1917 worked in Moscow for Main Military Meteorological Board, then at Moscow Weather Bureau, where he compiled and published first Soviet weather forecasting manual (1928). One of founders of frontological method of weather forecasting.
Author of a number of research works on synoptic processes in Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.