Career He graduated from the
Leningrad State University in 1929. He headed the Department of Physical Geography at his
alma mater since 1950. In 1955, Stanislav Kalesnik was appointed head of the
Limnology Institute of the
Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Kalesnik's principal works are dedicated to theoretical topics of
geoscience,
landscape science and glaciology, as well as
geomorphology of Central
Tian Shan and
Dzungarian Alatau. Stanislav Kalesnik is known to have introduced several new concepts and terms, such as
chionosphere (хионосфера),
energy of glacierization (энергия оледенения), and geographical structure (географическая структура). In 1964, Stanislav Kalesnik was elected president of the
Soviet Geographical Society. He was also the vice president of the
International Geographical Union in 1968-1972. Kalesnik was an honorary doctor of the
University of Cracow and
University of Turku.
Awards and honors Stanislav Kalesnik was awarded two
Orders of Lenin, two
Orders of the Badge of Honour,
Order of the Red Banner of Labour,
Order of the Red Star, and several medals.
Glaciers in
Trans-Ili Alatau, Dzungarian Alatau, and the
Urals bear his name. ==References==