К 100-ЛЕТИЮ СО ДНЯ РОЖДЕНИЯ КИРИЛЛА ВЛАДИМИРОВИЧА МОРОШКИНА

Abstract

Kirill Vladimirovich Moroshkin was born in the family of teachers Vladimir Ivanovich Moroshkin and Maria Efimovna Lyashkevich in the town of Yelnya, Smolensk Region one hundred years ago. In 1937 he graduated from high school and entered the Oceanology Department of the Moscow Hydrometeorological Institute, renamed in connection with the War-II the Higher Military Hydrometeorological Institute of the Red Army (VVGMI KA). After graduation of the VVGMI, the technician-lieutenant Moroshkin was sent to the Hydrometeorological Service of the Pacific Fleet, where from 1943 to 1945 served as a navigator. In 1946, he came to work at the Institute of Oceanology, then to the correspondence postgraduate course to Professor V.G. Kort. On January 26, 1962 immediately after the completion of the postgraduate study, K.V. Moroshkin was appointed the first Director of the Atlantic Department of the Institute of Oceanology, where he worked in this position until August 7, 1980. He was replaced by Dr. V.T. Paka on this post. Dr. Kirill Vladimirovich Moroshkin died on July 26, 2006, at the age of 87, having worked for 61 years at the Institute of Oceanology.