Smirnov V.I., (1887-1974), mathematician

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SMIRNOV Vladimir Ivanovich (1887, St. Petersburg - 1974, Leningrad), mathematician, member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1943), Hero of Socialist Labour (1967). He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of St. Petersburg University in 1910, and five years later assumed the position of professor. From 1918 to 1921, he lived and worked in the Crimea. On his return to Petrograd in 1921, he assumed the professorship at St. Petersburg University and at the St. Petersburg Institute for Transport Communications (1912-30). From 1929 to 1935, he also worked at the Seismological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Mathematical Institute attached to the same institution. His major works focused on the theory of complex variable analysis. He is also remembered as the author of Course of Higher Mathematics (Vol. 1-5, 1924-27; the Stalin Prize of 1948). He lived at 19 Kirovsky Avenue (present-day Kamennoostrovsky Avenue) and was buried at Komarovskoe cemetery.

References: Владимир Иванович Смирнов (1887-1974). СПб., 1994.

O. N. Ansberg. Smirnov Vladimir Ivanovich
Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) Iosif Vissarionovich
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 19
Владимир Иванович Смирнов (1887-1974). СПб., 1994 Russian Academy of Sciences
State University, St. Petersburg
Railway University
Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Branch
Komorovskoe Cemetery