Background
Boris Izmailovich Sreznevsky was born on March 19, 1857, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation in the family of a prominent philologist Izmail Ivanovich Sreznevsky.
Saint Petersburg University
Moscow University
Yuriev University
Voronezh, Russian Federation
Voronezh State University
Lomonosov Award
Gold Medal named after count Tolstoy
geographer meteorologist physicist
Boris Izmailovich Sreznevsky was born on March 19, 1857, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation in the family of a prominent philologist Izmail Ivanovich Sreznevsky.
Boris Izmailovich graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Saint Petersburg University in 1879.
In 1882-1892, Boris Izmailovich was an adjunct of Main Physical Observatory, a physicist of storm warnings. During 1888-1890, he was a private associate professor at Saint Petersburg University. In 1892-1894, Boris Izmailovich worked as a private associate professor at Moscow University.
In 1894-1918, Boris Izmailovich worked as a professor, head of Meteorological Observatory, dean of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics (since 1899) of Yuriev University (the University of Tartu). Since 1918, Boris Izmailovich was a professor of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, and since 1921, of the Faculty of Pedagogy of Voronezh State University. Since 1929, he worked as a head of Kiev Meteorological Observatory.
His contemporaries knew Boris Izmailovich as a gifted musician, a brilliant pianist who showed his bright musical abilities from childhood.