Aleksey Tillo

Aleksey Tillo (Russian: Алексей Андреевич Тилло; Alexei Andreyevitch Tillo) (25 November (O.S. November 13), 1839, Kiev Governorate – 11 January (O.S. December 30), 1900, Saint Petersburg) was a prominent Russian geographer, cartographer, land surveyor, lieutenant general of the Russian Imperial Army (1894).[1]

Alexei Tillo
Алексей Тилло
Born1839
Kiev Governorate, Russia
Died1900
St. Petersburg, Russia
Allegiance Russia
Service/branch Imperial Russian Army
Years of service1856 - 1894
RankLieutenant General
Commands held148th Caspian Infantry Regiment
37th Infantry Division
Battles/warsTurkestan Campaigns
Awards Order of St. Stanislaus
Order of Saint Anna
Order of Saint Vladimir
Order of the White Eagle

Aleksey Tillo's grandfather was a French Huguenot, but his father was a citizen of the Russian Empire.

Career

Aleksey graduated from the Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy (1862) and Department of Geodesy of the General Staff Academy in Saint Petersburg (1866). His greatest achievement was a hypsometric map of the European part of Russia published in 1889. It was the first map of its kind that showed elevation correctly.[2] For creating this map Tillo was elected a corresponding member of the Russian (1892) and Parisian Academies of Sciences.

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 between the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea. Aleksey Tillo also authored a number of works on geomagnetism and meteorology. Part of the work he had initiated was continued after his death by Yuly Shokalsky (1856–1940).

Honours

The Tillo Islands, a small archipelago in the Kara Sea, as well as Tillo Island (Franz Josef Land) near Wilczek Land in Franz Josef Land, were named after Aleksey Tillo.

Medals

References

  1. Sergeev, S. V., Dolgov, E. I.. Military Topographers of Russian Army. М., 2001.
  2. Гипсометрическая карта Европейской России Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine / Сост. по данным Тилло, Седерхольма и Шокальского // Большой всемирный настольный Атлас Маркса / Под редакцией Eduard Petri и Ю.М. Шокальского. СПб.: Adolf Marks, 1910.


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