Yuly Mikhailovich Shokalsky (October 5 1856, Saint Petersburg — March 26 1940, Leningrad) was a Russian oceanographer, cartographer, and geographer. A grandson of Anna Kern, Pushkin's celebrated mistress, Shokalsky graduated from the Naval Academy in 1880 and made a career in the Imperial Russian Navy, helping establish the Sevastopol Marine Observatory and rising to the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1912. Wikipedia
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