Alexey Tryoshnikov

Alexey Fyodorovich Tryoshnikov (; (14 April 1914 – 18 November 1991), also spelt Aleksei Fedorovich Tryoshnikov and published as A. F. Treshnikov, was a Soviet oceanologist, geographer, and researcher. He was also a polar explorer and leader of the 2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition and the 13th Soviet Antarctic Expedition.

Early life and education Alexey Fyodorovich Tryoshnikov, also spelt Aleksei Fedorovich Tryoshnikov, He submitted his first scientific articles, as A. F. Treshnikov, in this scientific field to the Reports of the Russian Academy of Sciences (DAN – Doklady Academii Nauk).

In 1987, an initiative group of scientists engaged in interdisciplinary research of open dynamical systems. At first, the group consisted of four people: G.M. Degtyarev, A.G. Ivanov-Rostovtsev, L.G. Kolotilo and O.A. Lyubchenko. Several dozen specialists from various fields of natural sciences and humanities joined the work in different periods. The SELF model with applications was published in a series of articles of DAN, presented by academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences: A.F. Treshnikov, V.I. Ilyichev, K.Ya. Kondratiev, N.S. Solomenko, E.I. Shemyakin, S.L. Solovyov and others. Corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences S.P. Kurdyumov, L.N. Rykunov and other scientists also participated in the D–SELF project. Expanded versions of the DAN articles have been published in various academic and applied publications. Some of these works have been translated into English and published abroad.

D-SELF is a scientific field of interdisciplinary research of systems of various nature in self-organization and self–regulation. D-SELF is the initial abbreviation for a Double (dual) general process combining SELF-organization and SELF-regulation.

Other activities On 12 March 1958 Tryoshnikov visited Adelaide, Australia, on the Soviet Antarctic ship Cooperatzia ( Cooperatsiya and Kooperatsiya ), and spent several hours talking to Australian geologist and polar explorer Douglas Mawson. The ship's visit was an occasion for helping to develop further friendly relations between Australian and Soviet scientists, and the American scientist G. D. Cartwright was also on board.

Tryoshnikov was the president of the Geographical Society of the USSR

Awards Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Medal "For the Defence of the Soviet Transarctic" Gramota (diploma) for his service at the North Pole-3 Ice Station, 1954-1955

A monograph by A. G. Ivanov-Rostovtsev and L. G. Kolotilo on the topic of D-SELF published in 1999 was dedicated to the memory of A. F. Treshnikov.

In 2012, the research vessel RV Akademik Tryoshnikov was built in the Admiralty Shipyards, JSC, in St. Petersburg.

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