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Dear All,
My wife Ewa and I, and our daughter Kasia would like to express our great
personal sense of loss and bereavement over the very unexpected loss of our
brilliant and courageous friend Kolya (Nikolai) Komedchikov. We spent much
time with him at the Moscow conference, but we too were quite unaware that he
was suffering from cancer.
Doug
Douglas W Sims
3516A Bayview Avenue, apt. F
Brooklyn, New York 11224
718-891-6684
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From: Tony Campbell <[email protected]>
Subject: [MapHist] Nikolai Nikolaevich Komedchiko (1959 - 2011)
To: "*MapHist" <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 7:43 AM
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Those of you who attended the recent ICHC in Moscow will be shocked
and saddened to learn of the untimely death (yesterday) of one of that
conference's main organisers, Dr. Nikolai Komedchikov. We were not aware that
he
had been suffering from cancer. He died shortly before his 52nd birthday.
For a photo see:
http://www.ichc2011.ru/gallery/g_2011_07_14_01_17_48_3.jpg
(Nikolay is front left)
Nikolay was a member of the ICHC Selection Committee, he managed the
conference website, and he introduced those who were present at the
pre-conference meeting in the N.K. Roerich International Museum to the
forthcoming «Atlas of Russia’s Geographical Research and Discoveries of the
Earth», of which he was the project leader.
Prof. Alexey Postnikov has sent me these notes about Nikolay, whom he
describes as one of the most prominent researchers in the field of the
history of Russian cartography. He asked me to pass them on to MapHist.
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Dr Komedchikov graduated from the Department of Cartography of the Moscow
State University in 1982, and nearly all his life worked at the Russian Academy
of Sciences Institute of Geography's Department of Cartography, first as a
Chief
Research Fellow under Professor Alexander Lyuty, and after Lyuty's death he
became the Supervisor of this Department. He was the author and editor of many
fundamental maps and atlases, including such outstanding new publications as
the
Four Volumes National Atlas of Russia (2004) and the Atlas of the Kyuril
Islands
(2008). He published more than 120 works including seven books. The
majority of his publications included history of cartography aspects, and some
of them were very sound special works on the history of Soviet
cartography.
Dr Komedchikov participated in many international conferences (including
conferences on the History of Cartography) and was very active in the
International Cartographic Association and its Commission on the History of
Cartography.
His death is a great loss as for his family and friends, and for me
personally.
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Tony Campbell
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