Boris DAVYDOV

1884 (age 41)

1910-1913 commander, hydrographic ship Taymyr which took part in Vil’kitskiy’s sci expedition. As astronomer of this expedition determined the coordinates of a number of points from Cape Dezhnev to the Kolyma River and worked out sailing directions for this region: from 1913 head, hydrographic expedition in the Pacific. Made a nautical survey of the Okhotsk littoral and began an inventory of the Bering coast. During the Civil War arranged his collated material and prepared for publication in 1923 the book Lotsiya poberezhiy Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Okhotskogo morya i vostochnogo berega poluostrova Kamchatki s ostrovom Karaginskim vklyuchitel'no (Sailing Directions Along the Coast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Eastern Coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula Including Karaginskiy Island), which became a model for modern hydrographic works. After the establishment of Soviet regime in the Far East headed the Far Eastern Regional Board for Navigation Safety. 1924-1925 headed expedition on the gunboat Krasnyy Oktyabr’ to Wrangel Island, sent in connection with dispute with Canada and United States of America over ownership of this island and which hoisted Soviet flag on island. A bay on Wrangel Island was named for him.

Boris Vladimirovich DAVYDOV

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Russian hydrographer and geodesist

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DAVYDOV, Boris was born in 1884.

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1910 graduate Hydrographic Department, Naval Academy. Subsequently specialized in astronomy and geodesy at Pulkovo Observatory.

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1910-1913 commander, hydrographic ship Taymyr which took part in Vil’kitskiy’s sci expedition. As astronomer of this expedition determined the coordinates of a number of points from Cape Dezhnev to the Kolyma River and worked out sailing directions for this region: from 1913 head, hydrographic expedition in the Pacific. Made a nautical survey of the Okhotsk littoral and began an inventory of the Bering coast.

During the Civil War arranged his collated material and prepared for publication in 1923 the book Lotsiya poberezhiy Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Okhotskogo morya i vostochnogo berega poluostrova Kamchatki s ostrovom Karaginskim vklyuchitel'no (Sailing Directions Along the Coast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Eastern Coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula Including Karaginskiy Island), which became a model for modern hydrographic works. After the establishment of Soviet regime in the Far East headed the Far Eastern Regional Board for Navigation Safety. 1924-1925 headed expedition on the gunboat Krasnyy Oktyabr’ to Wrangel Island, sent in connection with dispute with Canada and United States of America over ownership of this island and which hoisted Soviet flag on island.

A bay on Wrangel Island was named for him.

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Since religion offers a complete set of answers to the problems of purpose, morality, origins, or science, it discourages exploration of those areas by suppressing curiosity, denies its followers a broader perspective, and prevents social, moral and scientific progress.

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Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.

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