Ivan Alexandrov

Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov
Иван Гаврилович Александров
Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov; Иван Гаврилович Александров
Born	1 September [O.S. 20 August] 1875; Moscow
Died	2 May 1936 (aged 60); Moscow

Ivan Gavrilovich Alexandrov (1875–1936) was a Russian/Soviet engineer who played a significant role in the modernisation of the Soviet Union.

Early life

Alexandrov participated in developing the GOELRO plan, and was responsible for the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station.[1] In 1921 he headed the Regionalisation Committee of Gosplan.

From 1927 to 1930 he was the Head of the Department of Hydrology, Meteorology and Regulation of Flow at the Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering (MSUEE - ru:Московский государственный университет природообустройства).

gollark: How is that not going to be awfully slow without ridiculously aggressive optimizations?

gollark: They work surprisingly well, even though I don't understand any of it.

gollark: RPNCalc makes this easier with its better stack manipulation and closures.

gollark: For example, if I took C but made it so that all function names had to be declared backward.

gollark: Not really. You can make things worse with no improvement elsewhere.

С. Кульчицький, Україна в системі загальносоюзного народногосподарського комплексу, Проблеми Історіїї України: факти, судження, пошуки, №11, 2004, сс. 30-31 (pdf Archived 2008-10-28 at the Wayback Machine)

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