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Boris Alisov

Boris Pavlovich Alisov was a Soviet climatologist.

Biography Alisov was born on 5 August 1891 in Maloarkhangelsk to a working family and went to school at the Kurskaya Gymnasium. In 1911, he entered the Department of Physics and Mathematics at Moscow University. He joined the army in 1915, participating in World War I, and then served in the Red Army from 1917 to 1921 during the period of the Russian Civil War.

Academic accomplishments After 1921, he returned to academia and studied meteorology. His academic work began with the study of climate conditions in the resorts of the North Caucasus. In doing so, he organized an actinometric station in Kislovodsk. He published his first academic work in 1924. In 1931 he migrated to Moscow and worked at the Moscow State Geophysical Institute until 1941. In 1933 he began teaching at the Moscow Hydrometeorological Institute, where he laid out the foundations of teaching climatology. He was appointed head of the climatology department in 1938. In 1936 he received his candidate degree in geographic sciences. In 1941 he defended his dissertation at the geography department of the Moscow State University.