Aleksey Tillo


Aleksey Tillo , 1839, Kiev Governorate – 11 January was a Russian geographer, cartographer, land surveyor, lieutenant general of the Russian Imperial Army.
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] and Department of Geodesy of the General Staff Academy in Saint Petersburg. 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. For creating this map Tillo was elected a corresponding member of the Russian and Parisian Academies of Sciences.
Aleksey Tillo is known to have coined the term Russian Upland">Russian Academy of Sciences">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.

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.

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