MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
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The department of hydrology, meteorology and regulation of flow of MSUEE is one of the oldest departments of the University and analogous departments in the country. The year 1914 might be considered as the founding year of the department, when Victor Grigoryevich Glushkov, pro-minent specialist and scientist in hydrogeology and former head of the hydrometrical de-partment in Turkmen territory, became an adjunct-professor (and from 1916 professor) of the Moscow Agric-ultural Institute (currently Timiryazev Agricultural Academy), started a course in hydro-lo-gy and created the office of hygrometry and sanitary technology. V. G. Glushkov consi-dered hydrology as an independent, stand-alone science studying the regularities and of hydro-lo-gical processes and phenomena, which have fundamental importance in the preparation of spe-cialists whose work is related to the use of natural resources. He laid the foundations of the course of hydro-geology which is being studied today in the tertiary institutions with water-conservation, hydro-melioration and hydro-technical orientations. After moving to Petrograd in 1920 he became head of the Faculty of Melioration in the Agri-cultural Institute of Kamennoostrovsk. Significant for the department was the contribution of professor (and later - active member of the AS of the USSR) Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov who participated in the development of the GOELRO plan, was the author of the project and builder of Dneproges. He was the Head of the department from 1927 to 1930. After his initiative and for the first time in the USSR the course "Regulation of flow" was offered read and the department was renamed to "Hydrology and regula-tion of water flow". To present the lecturers in hydrology, professor Mikhail Andreevich Velikanov was invited. Professor Velikanov was a prominent scientist, correspondence member of the AS of the USSR, author of fundamental works in engineering hydrology and the first textbook in hydrology of land. The course was also taught by docent Viacheslav Alexandrovich Troitskiy who worked in the department from 1923 and was author of a series of works in hydro-geological subdivision of the USSR. In 1928 Dimitri Illarionovich Kocherin was elected as a docent of the department. He was the founder of the study of the river flow and also - author of widely used engineering methods of calculation of the maximum flow. Unfortunately he tragically died in a railway accident in June of 1928 and practically did not manage to work in the department. In the same period docent Afanasiy Vasilievich Gritsuk was reading the course of Hydrometrics. He was also leading the work on the construction of hydrometric canal and later - organization of maintenance of hydrometric equipment. Under his supervision 8 new types of hydrometric equipment were developed (named after A V Gritsuk, E N Belkova, I P Nedorezov and others). In 1930 an independent Moscow Institute of Water Economy and Melioration was established. As Head of the Hydrology Department Mikhail Ivanovich Martselli was invited. M I Martselli was a prominent specialist in meteorology and water management and from 1922 to 1930 was the head of the homonymous department of Water Faculty of MIIT. To present the course of "Regulation of flow and river-beds" Makariy Vasilievich Potapov, the Vice-President of the Science and Technology Council of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the USSR was invited in 1930. With his arrival a productive work in regulation of flow and river-beds took place. In 1933 M V Potapov published the first in the country textbook "Regulation of Flow" (Selhozgiz), reprinted in 1941 and 1951. He developed the theory of artificial transverse circulation in open streams, developed methods of cost calculations for water reservoir projects, regulation of flood flow, protection of bridges etc. In 1935 M V Potapov was awarded the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences and in 1936 - the title of Professor. In 1940 he was elected a correspondence member of the Academy of Sciences of Byelorussia and in 1952 (posthumously) he was awarded the State Prize . With M I Martselli and M V Potapov and under their supervision, docents E N Belkova (1930-1941) and M V Trofimov (1941-1947) were working, as well as B S Pyshkin, correspondence member of the AS of Ukraine, prominent specialist in dynamical processes in water reservoirs. In 1945 after the end of the war Alexander Nikolaevich Ivanov started his work in the department. In 1946 the department was renamed to "Hydrology, hydrometrics and regulation of flow". In 1949 M V Potapov died. To present the course on "Regulation of flow" Professor M F Menkel (1949) and Professor P A Liapichev (1950) were invited. In 1947, after successful presentation of his PhD, A N Ivanov, student of M V Potapov, started teaching the course of regulation of flow. In 1950 the young scientific fellow Tamara Alexandrovna Negovskaya joined the department. She worked in the department for 35 years and contributed significant services in the improvement of educational process. A significant contribution was made by I A Fedoseev (1951-1957), distinguished scientist of RSFSR, correspondence member of the International Academy of the History of Science, author of several monographs on the history and development of hydrology in Russia. In 1958 M I Martselli, head of the department for 25 years, died. In 1955 he had been replaced by G V Zhelezniakov, professor, DSc, prominent scientist in hydraulics, hydrometrics and engineering hydrology. The staff of the department consisted of docents A N Ivanov, T A Negovskaya, assistant E E Ovcharov, DSc A D Savarenskiy, PhD I A Fedoseev, V M Pavlov, A A Lucsheva (she later wrote the widely known "Practical hydrometrics" and " Practical hydrology"). In 1962 docent, PhD A N Ivanov was elected as a head of the department (in 1976 he became a professor). During the period 1962-1979 the department was reinforced by new teachers, former post-gra-duate students of the chair: N N Zaharovskaya, A M Sukonkin, I. V. Proshliakov, V. V. Ilinich, A. L. Shaginian, T N Baidakova. In 1979 A N Baidakov died and docent E E Ovcharov (since 1985-professor) became the head of the department. After the initiative of the department, new subjects were added to the educational plans: "Meteorology and climatology" (on the faculties of eco-melioration, constructions and economics), "World water balance, earth water resources, water cadastre and monitoring" (for the specialty "Complex use and protection of water resources", "Engineering systems of water supply and water removal"). The department developed the drafts of the appropriate educational programs on the above subjects and prepared the courses "Hydrological prognoses", "Hydro-informatics", "Regulation of flow against floods", "Anthropogenic effects on water resources". In March of 1999 professor Gabil Hudushevich Ismaylov, prominent scientist in the area of hydrology and water resources, was elected Head of the Department. He established a school of modeling of the processes of functioning and development of large scale water management systems. Professor G H Ismaylov worked for many years in the Institute of Water Problems (1968-1998) and was head of the laboratory of water resources management in the river-basins of arid zone. After his initiative the inter-departmental seminar "Hydrologo-ecological problems in management of water resources" was organized. In October 1999 the department obtained a new name: "Hydrology, meteorology and regulation of flow". |
