12 Facts About Andrei Monin

Andrei Monin was instrumental in developing the Shirshov Institute into one of the largest scientific centers for ocean and earth science studies.

Andrei Monin was born in Moscow to Sergei Aleksandrovich Andrei Monin, an Assistant Professor of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute.

Andrei Monin joined the Mechanical and Mathematical Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1938 and received his bachelor's degree in 1942.

Andrei Monin then enrolled for the post-graduate programme in the same university.

In 1943, Andrei Monin was called up for military service in the ranks of the Red Army where he was asked to join the military courses of weather forecasters organized at the Higher Hydrometeorological Institute of the Red Army.

Andrei Monin joined in the rank of lieutenant and sent to the 3rd Baltic Front where he was section leader of a frontal meteorological station.

Andrei Monin served in the army during the whole military campaign from the liberation of Pskov until the liberation of Riga.

In 1945, Andrei Monin was attached to the Central Institute of Weather Forecasting of the Red Army.

In 1946, Andrei Monin came back to Moscow State University to continue his post-graduate programme under the direct guidance of Academician Andrey Kolmogorov who prepared and defended his Candidate's thesis on the theory of atmospheric turbulence.

In 1951 Andrei Monin started to work at the Atmospheric Physics Department at Geophysical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, which later recognized as the Atmospheric Physics Institute.

Andrei Monin was a prolific author of scientific works on various topics, including theory of turbulence, atmospheric physics, planetology, and meteorology.

Andrei Monin was the author of about 620 scientific publications, including 24 monographs and the ten-volume "Okeanologia".