Aleksey Ivanovich Butakoff (Алексей Иванович Бутаков)
1816–69
Russian naval officer, navigator, and hydrographer. Explored and surveyed the Aral Sea, 1848–9; applied Mercator’s projection and enabled publication of the first map of the sea in 1850.
Sources
GSE s.v. Butakov, Aleksei Ivanovich
Russkii biograficheskii slovar’.
Bibliography
GSE: Great Soviet encyclopedia. Edited by Jean Paradise et al. 31 vols. (Translation of the 3d edition of Bol’shaya Sovetskaya entsiklopediya (Большая советская энциклопедия), edited by A. M. Prokhorov.) New York: Macmillan. London: Collier Macmillan. 1973–83.
Russkii biograficheskii slovar’. Edited by A. A. Polovtsov. St Petersburg: Izdanie Imperatorskogo Russkogo istoricheskogo obshchestva. 1896–1918.
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