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Georgy Mikhailovich Shiyanov (USSR) Georgy Shiyanov was born in Moscow on December 7, 1910. In 1928, he graduated from the Moscow Radio Engineering School, where he received a specialty as a radio installer. Then he worked as a loader and mechanic for about a year. From 1930 to 1932 he worked at the Krasny Proletary plant. Since 1932

Georgy Mikhailovich Lappo(born April 18, Lgov) - Soviet and Russian urban geographer. Doctor of Geographical Sciences (), professor (1988).

Biography

Contribution to science

Georgy Lappo, along with other geo-urbanists, came up with the concept of a frame-network structure of a territory, in contrast to the regional approach to the study of cities that was dominant in Soviet economic geography. The essence of this concept is that in mature urbanization, cities interact more with each other rather than with the surrounding area. In the 1970-80s. this direction was criticized from ideological positions as “anti-zoning”, but later became dominant in Russian geourbanism.

Awards and titles

• Order of the Patriotic War, II degree (1946)
• Honorary radio operator of the USSR (1951)
• Honorary member of the Russian Geographical Society (2000)

Main works

• Geography of cities with the basics of urban planning. M.: MSU, 1969. 184 p.
• Stories about cities. M.: Mysl, 1972. 192 pp. (republished in 1976)
• Moscow. Capital of the Soviet Union. M.: Progress, 1976. P. 189 (with the participation of A. Yu. Bekker and A. G. Chikishev)
• Lappo G. M. Stories about cities / Design by artist E. V. Ratmirova. - Ed. 2nd, add. and processed - M.: Mysl, 1976. - 224 p. - 150,000 copies.(region)
• Urban agglomerations in the USSR and abroad. M.: Znanie, 1977 (together with V. Ya. Lyubovny)
• Development of urban agglomerations in the USSR. M.: Nauka, 1978. 152 p.
• Geograpia de las Ciudades y fundomentas de Urbanismo. M.: Wneshtorgizdat 1983. P. 204
• Geo-urbanistics in the USSR. Main achievements and directions of research. M., 1986 (co-authored with N.V. Petrov; translated to the USA)
• Cities on the way to the future. M.: Mysl, 1987. 237 p.
• Packaz for Mockva. Science and art. Sofia, 1987. 199 p. (co-authored with A. Abadzhiev)
• Lappo G. M. Geography of cities. - M.: Vlados, 1997. - 480 p. - 20,000 copies.(region)
• - ISBN 5-691-00047-0.

Georgij M. Lappo und Fritz W. Honsch. Urbanisierung Rußlands. Berlin: Stuttgart: Borntraeger, 2000. P. 215.

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During the first time of his stay in St. Petersburg, Prince Andrei felt his entire mindset, developed in his solitary life, completely obscured by those petty worries that gripped him in St. Petersburg.
In the evening, returning home, he wrote down in a memory book 4 or 5 necessary visits or rendez vous [meetings] at the appointed hours. The mechanism of life, the order of the day in order to be everywhere on time, took a large share of the energy of life itself. He did nothing, didn’t even think about anything and didn’t have time to think, but only spoke and successfully said what he had previously thought about in the village.
He sometimes noticed with displeasure that he happened to repeat the same thing on the same day, in different societies. But he was so busy all day that he didn’t have time to think about the fact that he didn’t think anything.
Speransky, both on his first meeting with him at Kochubey’s, and then in the middle of the house, where Speransky, face to face, having received Bolkonsky, spoke with him for a long time and trustingly, made a strong impression on Prince Andrei.
Prince Andrey is like this great amount He considered people to be despicable and insignificant creatures, so he wanted to find in another the living ideal of the perfection for which he was striving, that he easily believed that in Speransky he found this ideal of a completely reasonable and virtuous person. If Speransky had been from the same society from which Prince Andrei was, the same upbringing and moral habits, then Bolkonsky would soon have found his weak, human, non-heroic sides, but now this logical mindset, strange to him, inspired him with respect all the more that he did not quite understand it. In addition, Speransky, either because he appreciated the abilities of Prince Andrei, or because he found it necessary to acquire him for himself, Speransky flirted with Prince Andrei with his impartial, calm mind and flattered Prince Andrei with that subtle flattery, combined with arrogance, which consists in silent recognition his interlocutor with himself, together with the only person capable of understanding all the stupidity of everyone else, and the rationality and depth of his thoughts.
During their long conversation on Wednesday evening, Speransky said more than once: “We look at everything that comes out of general level ingrained habit..." or with a smile: "But we want the wolves to be fed and the sheep to be safe..." or: "They cannot understand this..." and all with an expression that said: "We: you and I, we understand what they are and who we are.”
This first, long conversation with Speransky only strengthened in Prince Andrei the feeling with which he saw Speransky for the first time. He saw in him a reasonable, strictly thinking, enormously intelligent man who had achieved power with energy and perseverance and used it only for the good of Russia. Speransky, in the eyes of Prince Andrei, was precisely that person who rationally explains all the phenomena of life, recognizes as valid only what is reasonable, and knows how to apply to everything the standard of rationality, which he himself so wanted to be. Everything seemed so simple and clear in Speransky’s presentation that Prince Andrei involuntarily agreed with him in everything. If he objected and argued, it was only because he deliberately wanted to be independent and not completely submit to Speransky’s opinions. Everything was so, everything was good, but one thing embarrassed Prince Andrei: it was Speransky’s cold, mirror-like gaze, which did not let into his soul, and his white, tender hand, which Prince Andrei involuntarily looked at, as they usually look at people’s hands, having power. For some reason this mirror look and this gentle hand irritated Prince Andrei. Prince Andrei was unpleasantly struck by the too much contempt for people that he noticed in Speransky, and the variety of methods in the evidence that he cited to support his opinions. He used all possible instruments of thought, excluding comparisons, and too boldly, as it seemed to Prince Andrei, he moved from one to another. Either he became a practical activist and condemned dreamers, then he became a satirist and ironically laughed at his opponents, then he became strictly logical, then he suddenly rose into the realm of metaphysics. (He used this last tool of evidence especially often.) He transferred the question to metaphysical heights, moved into the definitions of space, time, thought, and, making refutations from there, again descended to the ground of dispute.

Georgy Mikhailovich Lappo(born April 18, 1923, Lgov) - Soviet and Russian urban geographer. Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1975), Professor (1988).

Honorary member of the Russian Geographical Society. Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1987), Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1998).

Born in the city of Lgov, Kursk province. In 1940 he entered the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering, after completing the first year, he went to the front in 1941. After being demobilized in 1946, he worked as a flight radio operator in the aerial survey detachment of the Moscow Aerogeodetic Enterprise GUGK. In 1953 he graduated in absentia from the Department of Economic Geography of the USSR (1953) Geographical Faculty of Moscow State University, in 1953-56. He studied at the graduate school of the same faculty. He defended his PhD thesis on the topic “Cities of the Moscow Region” in 1962.

In 1957-63. worked at the Research Institute of Urban Planning and Regional Planning of the USSR Academy of Construction and Architecture. In 1964, G.M. Lappo returned to Alma mater and until 1969. was an associate professor at the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University, where he taught the course “City Geography with the Fundamentals of Urban Planning” (published as a monograph in 1969).

Since 1969, Georgy Lappo has been working at the Institute of Geography of the USSR Academy of Sciences, studying the problems of the development of cities in the Soviet Union. Since 1973, he has headed the economic geography department of this institute.

In 1975 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Problems of the development of large urban agglomerations in the USSR.” In parallel with his scientific work, he lectured at universities in Ufa, Krasnodar, Tashkent, Smolensk and Saransk.

Georgy Lappo, along with other geo-urbanists, came up with the concept of a frame-network structure of a territory, in contrast to the regional approach to the study of cities that was dominant in Soviet economic geography. The essence of this concept is that in mature urbanization, cities interact more with each other rather than with the surrounding area. In the 1970-80s. this direction was criticized from ideological positions as “anti-zoning”, but later became dominant in Russian geourbanism.

• Order of the Patriotic War, II degree (1946)
• Order of the Red Star (1944)
• Medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus" (1943)
• Medal "For Victory over Germany" (1945)
• Medal "For Labor Distinction" (1952)
• Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1998)
• Honorary radio operator of the USSR (1951)
• Honorary member of the Russian Geographical Society (2000)

• Geography of cities with the basics of urban planning. M.: MSU, 1969. 184 p.
• Stories about cities. M.: Mysl, 1972. 192 pp. (republished in 1976)
• Moscow. Capital of the Soviet Union. M.: Progress, 1976. P. 189 (with the participation of A. Yu. Bekker and A. G. Chikishev)
• Lappo G. M. Stories about cities / Design by artist E. V. Ratmirova. - Ed. 2nd, add. and processed - M.: Mysl, 1976. - 224 p. - 150,000 copies.(region)
• Urban agglomerations in the USSR and abroad. M.: Znanie, 1977 (together with V. Ya. Lyubovny)
• Development of urban agglomerations in the USSR. M.: Nauka, 1978. 152 p.
• Geograpia de las Ciudades y fundomentas de Urbanismo. M.: Wneshtorgizdat 1983. P. 204
• Geo-urbanistics in the USSR. Main achievements and directions of research. M., 1986 (co-authored with N.V. Petrov; translated to the USA)
• Cities on the way to the future. M.: Mysl, 1987. 237 p.
• Packaz for Mockva. Science and art. Sofia, 1987. 199 p. (co-authored with A. Abadzhiev)
• Lappo G. M. Geography of cities. - M.: Vlados, 1997. - 480 p. - 20,000 copies.(region)
• - ISBN 5-691-00047-0.
• - ISBN 5-691-00047-0.