Petrov, Aleksandr Dmitrievich
Petrov, Aleksandr Dmitrievich
Born Feb. 1 (12), 1794, in the village of Biserovo, Pskov Province; died Apr. 10 (22), 1867, in Warsaw. The strongest Russian chess player in the first half of the 19th century; chess theorist and writer on chess.
Petrov won many matches with outstanding chess players of Russia and Poland, including A. Gofman, K. A. Ianish, S. S. Urusov, and I. S. Shumov. A chess player of world class, he was invited to the first international chess tournament in London in 1851 but was unable to attend. Petrov wrote the first Russian textbook on chess and compiled complex and original chess problems. He is widely known for an opening he devised, the Russian, or Petrov, defense.
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Shakhmatnaia igra, privedennaia v sistematicheskii poriadok, sprisovokupleniem igor Filidora i primechanii na onyia, izdannaia Aleksandrom Petrovym. St. Petersburg, 1824.REFERENCE
Linder, I. M. A. D. Petrov—pervyi russkii shakhmatnyi master, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1955.Petrov, Aleksandr Dmitrievich
Born Aug. 16 (28), 1895, in St. Petersburg; died Jan. 31, 1964, in Moscow. Soviet organic chemist. Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1946).
Petrov graduated from the University of Petrograd in 1922. From 1943 he was a professor at the D. I. Mendeleev Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering. In 1947 he was appointed a laboratory head at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Petrov’s main works were devoted to research in organic synthesis. He obtained hydrocarbons of various structures that are components of motor fuels; he also effected the synthesis and studied the properties of many silicone hydrocarbons. Petrov received the State Prize of the USSR in 1947. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and several medals.