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About Stepan Makarov
Stepan Osipovich Makarov was a Russian vice-admiral, commander in the Imperial Russian Navy, oceanographer, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books. He was a pioneer of insubmersibility theory, and developer of a Cyrillic-based semaphore alphabet. A proponent of icebreaker use, he supervised the first polar icebreaker construction. Makarov also designed several ships.
Everything about Stepan Makarov →- Occupation
- military personnel, engineer, hydrographer, explorer
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Born
- January 8, 1849, December 27, 1848
- Died
- April 13, 1904, March 31, 1904