Moskvitinov Ivan Iosifovich

Genus. in 1885 in Odessa. One of the organizers and first employees of the Scientific and Reclamation Institute, a specialist in the movement of sediments. Before the revolution, he received a technical education in the United States (hydraulic engineer), worked in his specialty in Turkestan, and in 1921 was elected professor at the Polytechnic Institute in the department of hydraulics in Petrograd. In 1929-1930 he was director of the NMI. Arrested 10/05/1930; sentenced by KOGPU on 08/23/1931 to 10 years in a concentration camp; released by the same authorities on 08/16/1932. Then he worked again at the Polytechnic Institute. During the Second World War, he ended up in the German occupation in Pyatigorsk, ended up in West Germany through captivity, taught, worked in the Geological Survey. Since 1952 - in the USA, he worked as a teacher of hydraulics. He died in New York in 1963 and was buried in the cemetery of the Novo-Diveevo Monastery near Nanuet, New York.