Alexey Tryoshnikov

Alexey Fyodorovich Tryoshnikov (Russian: Алексе́й Фёдорович Трёшников) (14 April 1914, Pavlovka, Karsunsky Uyezd, Simbirsk Governorate – 18 November 1991, Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet polar explorer and leader of the 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition and the 13th Soviet Antarctic Expedition.

2000 Russian stamp dedicated to Alexey Tryoshnikov

He was involved in defending the Northern Sea Route during World War II and participated in the Soviet Antarctic Expedition. Between 1954 and 1955, he was the leader of the North Pole-3 ice station in the Arctic Ocean.

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 Soviet Union from 1960 to 1981. In 1982 he was elected Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Supported a new scientific direction — the theory of self-organization and self-regulation of natural systems D-SELF.^[1]

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.^[2]

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^[3] 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.^[4]

A minor planet 3339 Treshnikov discovered by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos in 1978 is named after him.^[5]

Awards

• Hero of Socialist Labor (1949)
• four Orders of Lenin (1949, 1955, 1960, 1984)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1981)
• Order of the Badge of Honor (1946)
• Order of the October Revolution (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"

See also

• Akademik Tryoshnikov research vessel