Alexey Fyodorovich Tryoshnikov () (14 April 1914, Pavlovka, Karsunsky Uyezd, Simbirsk Governorate – 18 November 1991,

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polar explorer and leader of the 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition and the 13th Soviet Antarctic Expedition. He was involved in defending the

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during

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and participated in the

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. Between 1954 and 1955, he was the leader of the North Pole-3 ice station in the

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. He was also the president of the Geographical Society of the USSR since 1977 and the director of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) of the

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from 1960 to 1981. In 1982 he was elected Academician of the

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. Supported a new scientific direction — the theory of self-organization and self-regulation of natural systems D-SELF. A. F. Treshnikov submitted his first scientific articles in this scientific field to the Reports of the Russian Academy of Sciences (DAN – Doklady Academii Nauk). The monograph by A. G. Ivanov-Rostovtsev and L. G. Kolotilo on this topic was dedicated to the memory of A. F. Treshnikov. In 1987, an initiative group of scientists engaged in interdisciplinary research of open dynamical systems. At first, the group consisted of four people: G.M. Degtyarev, A.G. Ivanov-Rostovtsev, L.G. Kolotilo and O.A. Lyubchenko. Several dozen specialists from various fields of natural sciences and humanities joined the work in different periods. The SELF model with applications was published in a series of articles of DAN, presented by academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences: A.F. Treshnikov, V.I. Ilyichev, K.Ya. Kondratiev, N.S. Solomenko, E.I. Shemyakin, S.L. Solovyov and others. Corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences S.P. Kurdyumov, L.N. Rykunov and other scientists also participated in the D–SELF project. Expanded versions of the DAN articles have been published in various academic and applied publications. Some of these works have been translated into English and published abroad. D-SELF is a scientific field of interdisciplinary research of systems of various nature in self-organization and self–regulation. D-SELF is the initial abbreviation for a Double (dual) general process combining SELF-organization and SELF-regulation. A

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3339 Treshnikov discovered by Czech astronomer

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in 1978 is named after him.

Awards

* Hero of Socialist Labor (1949) * four

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(1949, 1955, 1960, 1984) *

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(1981) * Order of the Badge of Honor (1946) *

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(1974) * Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" * Medal "For the Defence of the Soviet Transarctic" * Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

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Academician Treshnikov
1914 births 1991 deaths People from Baryshsky District People from Karsunsky Uyezd Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Soviet polar explorers Soviet explorers Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Heroes of Socialist Labour {{geoscientist-stub

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