Iosif Khodʹko
General, geodezist, chelovek
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translation: Iosif Khodko - General, surveyor, man
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Iosif (Osip) Ivanovich Khodzko (December 6, 1800 - February 21, 1881) - Lieutenant General of the General Staff of the Russian Army, Russian military surveyor, geographer and cartographer, world-renowned research scientist, initiator and main executor of the Greater Caucasian Triangulation named after him ; a native of the territory of modern Belarus, by religion - a Catholic. Founding member and first Head of the Caucasian Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society; Upon Khodzko's resignation, the Caucasian Department of IRGO awarded the Prize in his name for the best geographical work on the geography of the Caucasus.
