1953: Just before entering the elementary school
1968: Before graduating from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
1969: Moscow, on the way to yachting racing. Yachting sport strongly influenced his
decision to change specialty from gas dynamics (rockets) to hydrodynamics
(oceanography)
1974: Colombo, Sri Lanka. Press conference onboard the R/V “Vityaz” together with
his supervisor V. G. Kort (both standing)
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M. G. Velarde et al.
1968: Before graduating from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
1969: Moscow, on the way to yachting racing. Yachting sport strongly influenced his
decision to change specialty from gas dynamics (rockets) to hydrodynamics
(oceanography)
1974: Colombo, Sri Lanka. Press conference onboard the R/V “Vityaz” together with
his supervisor V. G. Kort (both standing)
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M. G. Velarde et al.