On December 16, a postcard with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 100th Birth Anniversary of Oleg Mamaev, an ocean scientist, was put into postal circulation in the Geographical Projects of Russia series

Oleg Mamaev (1925–1994) was a Soviet oceanologist, a professor, the Head of the Department of Oceanology at Moscow State University, and a Doctor of Geographical Sciences.

He was born on November 7, 1925, in Moscow. In 1941-1942, he worked and studied at the River Technical College at the Faculty of Navigation, at the courses of military translators.

In 1953, he graduated with honors from the Department of Oceanology at the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University. During his student years, he took part in expeditions to the Black and North Seas, after which he published his first scientific work, Calculation of Sea Current Elements Based on Oceanologic Profile Data in Native and Foreign Practice (1951). In 1953–1954, he took part in expeditions of the Institute of Oceanology onboard the Vityaz vessel in the Bering Sea and the northern part of the Pacific Ocean.

In 1957, O. Mamaev participated in the first voyage of the Mikhail Lomonosov, a research ship built specially for marine exploration. In 1958, he defended his Candidate’s dissertation Zero Dynamic Surface of the World Ocean, and in 1966, his dissertation, Fundamentals of the TS Analysis of the Waters of the World Ocean, for the degree of Doctor of Geographical Sciences.

In 1968, in the capacity of the scientific supervisor, he participated in a long-term (255 days) expedition on the Professor Deryugin new search vessel. His first voyage was almost circumnavigational: from the Black Sea through the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, then south to the Strait of Magellan, and then across the entire Pacific Ocean from southeast to northwest. In 1969, he was sent to Paris to work at the UNESCO Secretariat as Deputy Secretary of the International Oceanographic Committee for Regional Programs. In this position, he participated in the organization of international research on the World Ocean.

The main illustration shows a portrait of Oleg Mamaev against the Vityaz research vessel and the RGS Logo; the commemorative stamp features images that symbolically represent geographical projects.

In addition to the issue of the postcard with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka produced special cancels for Moscow and Kaliningrad.


Design Artists: S. Kapranov and S. Ulyanovsky.
Quantity: 3 thousand postcards.

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