Yuly Shokalsky

Yuly Mikhailovich Shokalsky (Russian: Юлий Михайлович Шокальский; October 5, 1856, Saint Petersburg — March 26, 1940, Leningrad) was a Russian oceanographer, cartographer, and geographer.
A grandson of Anna Kern, Pushkin's celebrated mistress, Shokalsky graduated from the Naval Academy in 1880 and made a career in the Imperial Russian Navy, helping establish the Sevastopol Marine Observatory and rising to the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1912. At the same time, he developed interest in limnology and meteorology and became the most prolific Russian author on the subjects. In the Marine Miscellanies alone, he published some 300 articles.


A 1912 map of the Russian Empire by Shokalsky, with his personal dedication to the Library of Congress in the upper left corner.
Shokalsky's most important monograph was Oceanography (1917), a collection of his lectures which examined connection between meteorology and hydrology and emphasized the importance of monitoring marine phenomena in order to understand global changes of climate. Shokalsky insisted on differentiating oceanography and hydrography and coined the term "World Ocean".

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