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Nikolai Mikhailovich Knipovich - "Patriarch of Russian Oceanography"
Nikolai Mikhailovich Knipovich - Russian and Soviet zoologist, ichthyologist, hydrobiologist and hydrologist, honorary member Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Father - M. M. Knipovich, military doctor, Lithuanian by nationality, from peasants Kovno province; mother - A.F. Knipovich, nee Moller, from the nobility. Early, in 1880, a motherless man was brought up by an older sister Lydia.
Graduated Helsingfors gymnasium (1880), then Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, St. Petersburg University (1885) and was left at the university to prepare for a professorship.
In 1887 he was arrested for participating in the Social Democratic group of D. Blagoevwhich he joined at the beginning of 1886. Five years was under the supervision of the police.
Since 1887, N. M. Knipovich worked at the biological station at Solovetsky Islands White Sea, where he collected materials for his master's thesis on the barnacles Ascothoracidae - parasites of starfish.
He defended his thesis "Materials for the knowledge of the Ascothoracida group" in 1892. In 1893 he returned to Petersburg University as assistant professor. In 1894, Nikolai Mikhailovich Knipovich entered the service of the Zoological Museum of the Academy.
Organizing committee member Russian polar expedition.
Studied fauna and physical geography White Sea. Was in charge expeditionsequipped in 1897 on Murmansk coast for scientific field research (1898-1901).
Owned an apartment and a dacha in Finland (in Seivasto, now lakes), which hosted in June 1907V. I. Lenin with his wife. Sister Knipovich Lidia Mikhailovna (1857-1920) - leader of the revolutionary movement, Bolshevik. V. I. Lenin personally knew N. M. Knipovich well and characterized him not only as a scientific force of the first rank, but also as an unconditionally honest person.
Under the leadership of N. M. Knipovich, the Azov-Black Sea scientific and fishing expedition (1922-1928) worked, which determined many facts of the hydrography of the Black Sea basin.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Knipovich died suddenly on February 23, 1939 in the city of Leningrad from a heart attack and was buried at the Smolensk Orthodox cemetery. Later, the ashes were reburied at Literary bridges.
Author of 164 published works and about two hundred articles posted on pages Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron.
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In 1935, the Polar Institute "PINRO" was named after N.M. Knipovich in connection with the 50th anniversary of the scientist's creative activity and in honor of the recognition of his merits in the study of the northern seas.
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Academician Knipovich Street in Murmansk crosses Lenin Avenue at the Detsky Mir shopping center.
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NIS and NPS (research and scientific fishing vessels) were named after him.
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In memory of the 75th anniversary of the scientific and commercial research of the Barents Sea, begun in 1899 under the leadership of Nikolai Mikhailovich Knipovich, a memorial sign was erected on the street next to the building of the Polar Institute.
