Zonenshain Lev Pavlovich (1929-1993)

Historical milestones

1946

The Institute of Oceanology was established. Resolution of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences

1946

• The fundamental role of the spatial unevenness of the wind field in the formation of ocean circulation.
• Equatorial countercurrent theory.

V.B. Shtokman

1948

• The concept of the biological structure of the ocean and its total biological resources

L.A. Zenkevich and V.G. Bogorov

1957

• Maximum depth of the Mariana Trench - 11,022 m
• Life at depths > 7 km
• XXV cruise of RV Vityaz

1967

• Ocean turbulence theory

A.S. Monin and R.V. Ozmidov

1970

• Synoptic eddies
• Experiment POLYMODE in the Atlantic

L.M. Brekhovskih,
M.N. Koshlyakov, V.G. Kort and
L.M. Fomin

Zonenshain Lev Pavlovich (1929-1993)

Geologist, specialist in geology and tectonics of oceans and continents

He was born on December 1, 1929.
Graduated from Moscow State University in 1952.
Since 1991, Corresponding Member of RAS (1991), worked as the head of the laboratory of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology.
The main direction of scientific activity: the study of modern tectonic activity in the oceans.