Background
Vasily Alekseyevich Winogradsky was born near 1797 in Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (now Dnepropetrovsk, Dnipropetrovs'ka Oblast', Ukraine). His father was a priest.
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Vasily Alekseyevich Winogradsky
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In 1821 he graduated from Kharkov University with a PhD degree.
Career
Vasily Winogradsky served in the Department of Mining and Salt Affairs from 1823 to 1828. He was an official for special missions at Luhansk Iron Foundry from 1828 to 1834, being a mountain schools’ supervisor at the same time from 1829 to 1834. He was an official of mining engineers' corps headquarters (Saint Petersburg, 1834-1835), a clerical worker at Kharkov University from 1835 to 1841. Vasily was a director of the people's schools of Voronezh Governorate and gymnasium (since 1841). A finishing school affiliated to gymnasium was opened on the initiative of Winogradsky in 1842. He was a counselor of State (1845).
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N.N. Panteleevsky: "Winogradsky was collecting local demotic words and created a dictionary, which was used by Vladimir Ivanovich Dal for his famous work’s preparation."
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Ukraine -
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Education
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1821
Career
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1823 - 1828
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1828 - 1834
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1829 - 1834
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1834 - 1835
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1835 - 1841