KHALTURIN

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14.8.1902 Saint Petersburg/RU - 21.10.1988 Moscow/RU

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Alexandr Dmitrievich Khalturin graduated in 1926 as a forest engineer from the Leningrad Forest Engineering Faculty. For the next three years, he collaborated as a hydraulic engineer at the Wood Processing Central Trust, Moscow and from then was a senior engineer of the Giprovod Water Management Institute. Khalturin was a vice director of the Hydraulic Laboratory at the Volgostroy scheme in Yaroslavl on the Volga River from 1933 to 1938. He then moved in a similar position to the Kuybishev hydro complex and from 1942 joined Glavpromstroy in the Ural Region. Khalturin was from 1947 to 1987 the vice director of the Hidroproekt Hydraulic Research Department, by now the Scientific Research Institute of Power Engineering OAO NIIES, Moscow.

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Khalturin was a specialist in laboratory researches of dam engineering. His studies were related to a number of outstanding hydropower schemes, such as Toljskaya close to Yaroslavl, Kuybishev, and Ufa close to Moscow. His professional interests concentrated on river bed processes in general and effects of scour in particular, as on groundwater flow, pressure fluctuations and vibrations of hydraulic structures. He contributed to the electro-hydrodynamic analogy in the 1930s, low density substitution of river sediments, air models for hydraulic questions, novel developments in laboratory equipment, and lock research in naval engineering. He invented a number of instruments for limnimetry and oceanography. Khalturin was a recipient of the Stalin Premium in 1951; he was awarded the title Honored USSR Power Engineer in 1973, and received a number of additional awards from his country. In 1974, he was conferred the title Honored Power Engineer of the USSR by the order of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Council.

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_{Anonymous (1974). Congratulations to Aleksandr Dmitrievich Khalturin. Hydrotechnical Construction 8(7): 663; also in 11(11): 1071.}

_{Anonymous (1989). Aleksandr Dmitrievich Khalturin. Hydrotechnical Construction 23(1): 46. Khalturin, A.D., Lyubimov, A.I., Mikhailov, A.V. (1959). Hydraulic investigations of navigation locks in the Volga River basin. 8 IAHR Congress Montreal 1(9B): 1-19.}

_{Melua, A.I. (2001). Khalturin, Alexandr Dmitrievich. Energetics of Russia: 389-390.}

_{Humanistica: Moscow, Saint Petersburg (in Russian).}

_{Rossinsky, K.I., Kuzmin, I.A., Khalturin, A.D. (1958). Experience on preliminary estimation of local erosion depth downstream of one of the large hydro-projects. 6 ICOLD Congress New York Q21(R113): 1145-1155.}