Oleksiy Tillo

Oleksiy Tillo, or Aleksiy Tillo, ( _ru. Алексей Андреевич Тилло) (November 25 (O.S. November 13), 1839, Kiev Governorate - January 11 (O.S. December 30), 1900, Saint Petersburg) was a prominent Ukrainian geographer, cartographer, land surveyor, lieutenant general of the Russian Imperial Army (1894).

Oleksiy Tillo graduated from the Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy (1862) and Department of Geodesy of the General Staff Academy in Saint Petersburg (1866). His greatest achievement was a hypsometric map of the European part of Russia published in 1889. It was the first map of its kind that showed elevation correctly. For creating this map Tillo was elected a corresponding member of the Russian (1892) and Parisian Academies of Sciences. Oleksiy Tillo is known to have coined the term Central Russian Upland. Also, he measured the length of the main Russian rivers and conducted work on level difference of Caspian Sea and Sea of Aral. Oleksiy Tillo authored a number of works on geomagnetism and meteorology.

The Tillo Islands, a small archipelago in the Kara Sea, as well as an island near Wilczek Land in Franz Josef Land, were named after Oleksiy Tillo.

References

* [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/1_2000/fregat.htm On Aleksiy Tillo]