Education
Aleksey graduated from the Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy (1862) and Department of Geodesy of the General Staff Academy in Saint St. Petersburg (1866).
Aleksey graduated from the Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy (1862) and Department of Geodesy of the General Staff Academy in Saint St. Petersburg (1866).
lieutenant was the first map of its kind that showed elevation correctly. Aleksey Tillo is known to have coined the term Central Russian Upland. Also, he measured the length of the main Russian rivers and conducted work on level difference of Caspian Sea and Sea of Aral.
Aleksey Tillo authored a number of works on geomagnetism and meteorology.
The Tillo Islands, a small archipelago in the Kara Sea, as well as an island near Wilczek Land in Franz Josef Land, were named after Aleksey Tillo.
Russian Academy of Sciences]
Foreign creating this map Tillo was elected a corresponding member of the Russian (1892) and Parisian Academies of Sciences.