Abakumov Nikolay Pavlovich General data:
20.02.1882 - 09.06.1965
Place of birth: Kursk province, Russian Empire (according to other data of Lviv City, Austro-Hungarian Empire)
Studied in: Imperial Nicolay Military Academy, St. Petersburg (1910-1914); Kiev Military College (1903);
Key interests: astronomy, geodesy
Biography:
He was born on February 20, 1882, in the Kursk province of the Russian Empire (according to other data in Lviv city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire).
After graduating from high school in Ostrozhsk city, he graduated from the Kiev Military College in 1903. During 1904-1906 he served in the 9th East Siberian rifle regiment. On Jan. 1, 1909, he had the rank of the Bailiff of the 2nd Turkestan Rifle Battalion. In 1910, the Agent of the 2nd Turkestan Rifle Regiment. In 1914 he graduated from the Geodesy Department of the 2nd level of the Imperial Nicolay Military Academy of the General Staff in St. Petersburg, where he joined in 1910. At that time he held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, serving as Chief of Staff of the 102nd Infantry Division. In 1912 he was seconded to the Nikolay Main astromomic Observatory in Pulkovo. In 1913-1914 he worked at the Pulkovo Observatory, at the same time received a diploma. In 1914 he trained at the Paris Observatory.
Since August 1914, participated in the First World War. In September 1916, in the rank of captain of the Corps of military topographers, he was blaming the duties of the senior adjutant of the staff of the 1st Turkestan infantry brigade. He was rewarded with St. George's Army on September 27, 1916. Since October 26, 1917, he became the computer engineer at the military topographical department of the General Directorate of the General Staff. He was the Chief of Staff of the 102nd Infantry Division. On November 21, 1918 he served in the Hetman's army in the rank of the Military elder was part of the geodesic administration of the Don Army, and since June 17, appointed an astronomer. According to some data from 1918 he taught geodesy at the Technical Institute in Kyiv city, and since 1919 he has been the highest geodesy at the geographical department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the St. Volodymyr Kyiv University. In May 1920 he became assistant chief of staff of the 2nd Don Cavalry Division. In the summer of 1920 he served in the Russian Army in the Crimea, having the rank of colonel. Emigrated to Yugoslavia in early 1921. His wife and daughter were evacuated in early 1920 from Novorossiysk city to Antiogon ciy on the transport "Brienne". In September 1930 he became a member of the General Staff Officers' Society.
Here he settled himself first at the Military Geographical Institute in Belgrade City.
Since 1924 he was a member of the Committee of the Directorate General for Cadastre; his efforts in the cadastral change was to apply the projection of Gauss-Kruger.
In 1927 he began teaching at the Zagreb University, becoming an ordinary professor of the geodesic department of the Technical Faculty. It is known that here during 1942-1950 he taught higher geodesy, astronomy, cartography and photogrammetry. For some time he was the head of the department of higher geodesy, and in 1937 his efforts were based Astronomical Institute, which he himself and headed.
He headed the Academic Group of Russian Scientists in Zagreb city, which was a subsidiary of the central organization in Belgrade City.
For his merits after the Second World War, in 1948 the astronomer-geodesist was elected a corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts. However, in 1951 the scientist decided to return to his homeland.
During his time at Zagreb University he wrote about 10 scientific articles on geodesy and military topography in Serbian-Croatian and Russian. Most of them were published in collections of the Russian Scientific Institute.
In 1941 the monograph of the scientist "Determination of the Geographic Latitude of the Astronomical Laboratory of the Technical Faculty of the Zagreb University" was published (Zagreb, 1941).
Scientist died June 9, 1965 and was buried in Grozny City.
Main publications:
1. Абакумов Н. П. Определение географической широты астрономической лабораторией Технического факультета Загребского университета.- Загреб, 1941
Sources:
1 ria1914.info
2 Историк С.В. Волков. База данных «Участники Белого движения в России» на январь 2016. Буква А
3 Список офицеров генерального штаба армии Украинской державы на 21 ноября 1918 года
4 Офицеры РИА на службе в РККА
