ANDREI SERGEEVICH MONIN (AS WE REMEMBER HIM)

Abstract

This article publishes the memoirs about Andrei Sergeevich Monin – an outstanding scientist in geophysics, oceanologist, public figure, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences (1956), professor (1963), academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2000), director of the of the Shirshov Institute of oceanology of RAS in 1965–1987. A.S. Monin was not only a brilliant scientist (theoretician and practitioner), not only a talented leader and organizer of scientific research, which made it possible to bring oceanology in our institute, and in the country as a whole, to a new – higher – level, but also an interesting, outstanding person. Personality with a capital letter. And we, the authors of this article, are proud that we knew Andrei Sergeevich personally and worked with him.