FROM THE FIRST DECREE TO STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY
15.03.2019
The profession of the surveyor [of expert in geodesy and cartography] becomes safer and hi-tech
All geodetic and cartographic community on March 15 celebrates the centenary of the creation of the Supreme geodetic management.
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In the east of the country all this work is under authority of JSC Far East Aero Geodetic Enterprise (JSC DV AGP).
To Khabarovsk Krai the leg of the first topographer [expert in geodesy and cartography] stepped together with the Cossacks who began development of these lands, - the CEO of the enterprise Mikhail Svidersky says.
- The military, who founded Khabarovsk, and all other settlements, made the first maps, plans, sketches of the terrain, reports, from which geographical descriptions of the territory were formed during the development of the Far East. -
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In the industry there were 32 enterprises, 90 percent of experts graduated from the Lviv polytechnical, Moscow and Novosibirsk institutes of engineers of geodesy, aerial photography and cartography. But at many institutes there were departments of geodesy, - Mikhail Svidersky shares memories. - Now in Russia learn only in Moscow and in Novosibirsk, in other cities of department of geodesy closed. There is a problem with personnel, but we try to teach our employees in Novosibirsk. -
... Let's remember a recent landslide on Bureya - among the first there arrived surveyors [experts in geodesy and cartography], made measurements and pictures that on them to calculate what to do next.
... In all these areas any action begins with work of the surveyor [expert in geodesy and cartography]. In the annals of history there are names of pioneers which established a cities and settlements, mastered a virgin soil, a taiga jungle and mountains rich with valuable breeds. But each of them went to uncertainty according to cards which earlier someone made ...
... Modern tasks of the industry are rewritten from the first decree with which it began in 1919, - Mikhail Svidersky notes. - Only technology is changing. And our main task-to provide high - quality, metrically accurate information about the real state of the area [an Earth surface] - will remain relevant for centuries. And our experts cope with it perfectly.
Elena ROMANOVA" [https://toz.su/newspaper/podrobnosti/s_pervogo_dekreta_do_poslednego_slova_tekhniki/]
"http://istmat.info/node/35796
Decree of The Council of People's Commissars
About establishment of the Supreme geodetic management.
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Signed:
Chairman of The Council of People's Commissars Ulyanov (Lenin).
Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy Rykov.
V.D. Bonch-Bruyevich, Managing Affairs Of The Council Of People's Commissars.
Secretary L. Fotieva." [http://istmat.info/node/35796]
"https://www.gsi.ru/art.php?id=959
100 YEARS OF THE MAIN ADMINISTRATION OF GEODESY AND CARTOGRAPHY
06-03-2019
"S.M. Solovyyov was appointed the chairman of board of MAGC, and since August, 1919 MAGC and its board were headed by M.D. Bonch-Bruyevich".
"Mikhail Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruyevich, Russian and Soviet surveyor [expert in geodesy and cartography], military theorist, participant of the World War I and the Civil wars. Major general of the Russian imperial army and lieutenant general of the Red Army. Doctor of military and technical science. From the nobility of the Mogilev area. Was born 08.03.1870 in Moscow, 03 died. 08.1956 in Moscow." [https://www.gsi.ru/art.php? id=959]
... Today according to the application of command of military formations, the topographers of the Eastern Military District are ready to prepare the map of any area in the shortest possible time (so recently and was when planning operation on elimination of emergency situation on the Bureya River).
In more detail the chief of topology of the Eastern Military District colonel Roman SIMAKOV tells about the tasks solved by topographers of the Eastern Military District.
- Roman Vladislavovich, than 2018 for topographers of the Eastern Military District was remarkable?
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- ... Recently, for example, we executed the application for creation of local maps of the ... Bureya area. It is known that in December the largest landslide for the last decade was recorded here. The part of the hill collapsed to the bed of the [Bureya] river and created danger of flooding of settlements, threatened to break work of the Bureya hydroelectric power station. The task of elimination of emergency situation was received by units of the Eastern Military District, and its performance required exact data and large-scale maps of this area..
... An orthophoto was made of the area where the emergency occurred, and in two versions - before the crisis and to date on a scale of 1:1000 (one centimeter 10 meters), as well as 1:2000 and 1:5000. I would like to note that the work on creating an orthophoto and clarifying the situation lasted the entire period of liquidation of the consequences of a natural disaster. Specialists of our topographic service and the center of geospatial information and navigation constantly supplemented orthophotoplan with new data and produced new maps. It allowed command to study and analyse a situation, to effectively plan operation. (...)
Therefore we pay special attention to that the staff was able to use old theodolites and levels. (...)
Involuntarily you remember the great - 500 years ago - navigations, and you think: they are able to use classical topographical tools, they could be the useful participants of expeditions of both Magellan, and Columbus.
March 18, 2019 01:10
Translation from Russian into English: March 19, 2019 06:01.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Рассказ об интересе к Бурейской теме 18 марта 2019 г.".