GLUSHKOV

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22.3.1883 Verny/RU - 23.5.1937 Leningrad/RU

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Viktor Grigorevich Glushkov was born close to Alma-Ata in today's Kazakhstan. He graduated as a civil engineer from the Saint Petersburg Railway Institute in 1907. In Middle Asia, he led the land reclamation works on the Murgab River and created the Hydrometric Department of Turkestan. In 1913, he headed the organization of the Hydrometric Department for European Russia. Glushkov played an active role in the preparation of the State Commission for the Electrification of Russia and the Russian Hydrological Institute. He lectured in several institutions in Moscow and Leningrad and wrote seminal works in hydrometry, sediment transport and in hydrology. He also invented a number of hydrometrical instruments. In 1936, he was elected Academician of the USSR Agricultural Academy VASHNIL after having been a Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1932. Glushkov was executed during the 1937 massacres in the USSR.

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Glushkov was a notable hydrologist and hydraulic engineer during the early days of the Soviet Union. His first dam projects were directed to the Murgab River Scheme in Central Asia. He then headed the hydrometric service of Turkestan and from there moved to the European region of his country. In the 1920s he was involved in the GOELRO plan, an USSR state plan for electrification of the country that initiated in 1920, following the New Economy Policy. The plan provided the construction of power stations mainly in Ukraine to develop its metallurgical, mechanical and chemical branches. The plan also aimed at the restoration of the then existing hydropower schemes mainly on Dniepr River such that the Ukraine Soviet Republic developed to one of the primary centers of industrialization. Glushkov was also the founder of the Russian Hydrological Institute and its director from 1922. During the 1920s, he was thus also involved in questions of sediment transport and in hydrologic forecast. A book summarizing his main papers was published at his centennial of birth.

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_{Glushkov, V.G. (1910). On the methods of studying conditions of sediment movement. Otchet Gidrometricheskoi Chasti v Turkestanskom Kraie 1: 179-193 (in Russian).}

_{Glushkov, V.G. (1961). Theory and methods of hydrological investigations. Moscow. Lvovich, M.I. (1968). Viktor Grigorevich Glushkov. Leningrad (in Russian). P}

_{Sokolova, A.A. (1983). Problemy sovremennoi gidrologii: K 100-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia V.G. Glushkova. Gidrometeoizdat: Leningrad. http://hp.iitp.ru/eng/07/0766a.htm P}