Aleksey Tillo

{{Short description|Russian geographer, cartographer, land surveyor and lieutenant general}}

{{Infobox military person

|name= Alexei Tillo
Алексей Тилло

|birth_date=1839

|death_date=1900

|birth_place= Kiev Governorate, Russia

|death_place=St. Petersburg, Russia

|placeofburial=

|image=Tillo Alexej Andreevitch.jpg

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|allegiance= {{flagcountry|Russia|23px}}

|serviceyears=1856 - 1894

|rank=Lieutenant General

|branch=20px Imperial Russian Army

|commands=148th Caspian Infantry Regiment
37th Infantry Division

|unit=

|battles=Turkestan Campaigns

|awards= 28px Order of St. Stanislaus
28px Order of Saint Anna
28px Order of Saint Vladimir
28px Order of the White Eagle

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}}

Aleksey Tillo ({{langx|ru|Алексей Андреевич Тилло}}; Alexei Andreyevitch Tillo) (25 November (O.S. November 13), 1839, Kiev Governorate – 11 January (O.S. December 30), 1900, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian geographer, cartographer, land surveyor, lieutenant general of the Russian Imperial Army (1894).Sergeev, S. V., Dolgov, E. I.. Military Topographers of Russian Army. М., 2001.

Aleksey Tillo's grandfather was a French Huguenot, but his father was a citizen of the Russian Empire.

Career

Aleksey 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.[http://www.nlr.ru/exib/gf/gf1.htm Гипсометрическая карта Европейской России] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075208/http://www.nlr.ru/exib/gf/gf1.htm |date=4 March 2016 }} / Сост. по данным Тилло, Седерхольма и Шокальского // Большой всемирный настольный Атлас Маркса / Под редакцией Eduard Petri и Ю.М. Шокальского. СПб.: Adolf Marks, 1910. For creating this map Tillo was elected a corresponding member of the Russian (1892) and Parisian Academies of Sciences.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

Aleksey 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 between the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea. Aleksey Tillo also authored a number of works on geomagnetism and meteorology. Part of the work he had initiated was continued after his death by Yuly Shokalsky (1856–1940).{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

Honours

The Tillo Islands, a small archipelago in the Kara Sea, as well as Tillo Island (Franz Josef Land) near Wilczek Land in Franz Josef Land, were named after Aleksey Tillo.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

=Medals=

Order of St. Stanislaus 2nd class (1869)
Order of St. Anna 2nd class (1873)
Imperial Order of Saint Vladimir 4th class (1876)
Imperial Order of Saint Vladimir 3rd class (1879)
Order of St. Stanislaus 1st class (1885)
Order of St. Anna 1st class (1888)
Imperial Order of Saint Vladimir 2nd class (1891)
Order of the White Eagle (1896)

References

Category:1839 births

Category:1900 deaths

Category:19th-century explorers from the Russian Empire

Category:Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences

Category:Imperial Russian Army generals

Category:Nobility from the Russian Empire

Category:Geographers from the Russian Empire