Tschebotarioff was born in Pavlovsk, Russia, the son of Porphyry Grigorievich Chebotarev (1873–1920), an officer of the Don Cossack Guard Battery stationed at Pavlovsk, and his wife Valentina Ivanovna, the daughter of a former Army doctor. His mother, Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva, served as a Red Cross nurse at a hospital in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia with Tsarina Alexandra.
Technical University of Berlin.
His memoir Russia, My Native Land recounted his experiences as a boy and young man in Russia, where he served in the military during World War I.
Tschebotarioff published his mother"s wartime journal in Russia, My Native Land and in other publications. When he became an American citizen in 1941, he decided to retain the German spelling of his last name because he was already known in the engineering profession by that spelling. He studied in Imperial School of Jurisprudence and volunteered to Mikhailovskaya artillry school, completing its shortened wartime course in December 1916.
He served at the front of World War I with the Don cossack artillery battery in 1917.
He eventually arranged for the young girl to be cared for by her godmother, Baroness Sophie von Medem, in Germany. He completed his studies to become an engineer at the Berlin Institute of Technology.
Later he worked as an engineer in Cairo, Egypt for seven years. In 1937 he obtained a position at Princeton University in New Jersey.
He eventually became a full professor of civil engineering at Princeton.
Tschebotarioff was the author of a number of books and scientific journal articles in his field as well.
