Maksimov Georgy Sergeevich

Born in 1876 in St. Petersburg, in the family of a writer and ethnographer; Russian; higher education: graduated from the Naval School, the Naval Cadet Corps, and the Naval Academy. From 1898 - assistant to the head of the Hydrological Expedition of the Eastern Ocean. In 1905-1914, he carried out hydrographic work in the Baltic Sea and off the Murmansk coast as the head of the party, and then the head of the expedition. During the First World War - head of the geodetic department of the Main Hydrographic Directorate. In Soviet times, he trained hydrographers for the Navy, was the director of hydrography and navigation in the Directorate for Ensuring the Safety of Navigation on the Baltic Sea. After the organization of the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route, he trained polar hydrographers at the courses he organized, consulted on hydrographic and geodetic work in Altai and Karelia, and on the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal. In 1938 he lived at the address: Leningrad, Tuchkova Nab., Bldg. 14, Apt. 51. He was arrested on March 27, 1938. By the decree of the Leningrad Regional Directorate of the NKVD on April 26, 1939, he was released due to lack of evidence. After the war, he headed the hydrography department at VAMU. He died in Leningrad and was buried at the Bolsheokhtinskoye Cemetery.