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OBITUARY: PROF.Nikolay Ivanovitch Alexeevsky
2015-06-08

 

Prof. Nikolay I. Alexeevsky (1.04.1950 – 14.05.2015)

Nikolay I. Alexeevsky, 65, passed away after a short incurable illness on May 14, 2015.

Nikolay Alexeevsky was born in April 1950, in North Caucasus, Russia. He obtained his PhD in 1981 and was elected as a full Professor of the Land Hydrology Department of Moscow State University in 1993. He has served as a Council Member of the World Association for Sediment and Erosion Research (WASER) since 2010 and was a member of the Russian Committee for the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme. For over 20 years he served as head of the largest Hydrology Department in Russian universities, with more than 40 staff and over 10 student hydrologists graduating annually from the department.

He has 2 grandsons and was a truly beloved grandfather.

His wide-ranging research interests included sediment transport, fluvial processes, stream ecology, hydrological hazards and integrated river basin management. He published over 20 books and more than 200 journal papers. He supervised many PhD, Master and Bachelor students. He taught undergraduate courses for the students of the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University (LMSU) on Fundamentals of Hydrology, Hydrophysics asnd Fluvial processes.

His passing is a very sad loss for Russian hydrology, for his colleagues and for his family.

Among the participants of the XIth International Symposium on River Sedimentation ISRS-XI (South Africa, 2010)

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