Sergey Nikolaievich Kravkov
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Sergey Nikolaievich Kravkov 23 November 1894 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | February 1942 Leningrad, USSR |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Sea Cadet Corps (Saint Petersburg) |
| Known for | hydrographer and Arctic explorer |
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| Fields | hydrography |
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Sergey Nikolaievich Kravkov (in Russian Сергей Николаевич Кравков) was a Soviet hydrographer and Arctic explorer.
Sergey Nikolaievich Kravkov was born 23 November 1894 in Saint Petersburg in the family of a prominent Russian pharmacologist Nikolai Kravkov (1865-1924) and his wife Olga Evstafievna, née Bogdanovskaya (1868-1942), daughter of an outstanding Russian surgeon Evstafi Bogdanovsky. He spent his childhood with his parents in Germany and Austria-Hungary, after their separation in 1898 lived with his mother in Odessa.
In 1909-1914 Sergey Kravkov studied at the Sea Cadet Corps in Saint Petersburg. After the graduation he was made a midshipmen.
During World War I Sergey Kravkov served in the Black Sea Fleet. In the battle of Cape Sarych on 18 November 1914 against German battlecruiser SMS Goeben and light cruiser SMS Breslau he adjusted the artillery fire of the battleship Tri Sviatitelia. During the battle Kravkov made sketches in water color, published in the magazine “Morskoi sbornik” (# 11, 1915).
In 1917 lieutenant Kravkov completed the navigation courses in Sevastopol and got the rank of Class I Navigator. In 1918 he was transferred to Odessa Hydrographic Department. In November 1919 set out from Odessa to Vladivostok on a transportship Ierusalim. In Vladivostok he took the side of the Red Army. During Japanese intervention he went underground.
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