1. Maria Vasilyevna Klenova was a Russian and Soviet marine geologist and one of the founders of Russian marine science and contributor to the first Soviet Antarctic atlas.
12 Facts About Maria Klenova
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Maria Klenova joined in the First Soviet Antarctic Expedition and worked with ANARE at Macquarie Island.
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Maria Klenova was educated in Yekaterinburg and moved to Moscow during World War I to work in a hospital while undertaking medical studies.
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Maria Klenova travelled to Siberia to continue her medical studies during the Russian Civil War.
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Maria Klenova undertook her doctoral degree under supervisors Yakov Samoilov and Vladimir Vernadsky.
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In 1933 Maria Klenova produced the first complete seabed map of the Barents Sea.
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Maria Klenova identified and named the Barents abyssal plain after the Dutch polar explorer Willem Barentsz who died in 1597 on his third expedition to find the Northeast Passage.
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In 1949 Maria Klenova became a senior research associate at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
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Maria Klenova's work included analyses of seabed geology in the Atlantic Ocean and the Antarctic, and in the Caspian, Barents and White Seas.
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Maria Klenova's contributions helped to create the first Antarctic atlas, a groundbreaking four-volume work published in the Soviet Union.
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Maria Klenova spent most of her time making observations on board the Russian icebreakers Ob and Lena.
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Maria Klenova's group took oceanographic measurements in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters.