What is the name of the founder of the famous chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest to the Black Sea?
Struve Geodetic Arc The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km, which yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian.
Alexander Polovtsov Alexander Alexandrovich Polovtsov (Russian: Александр Александрович Половцов ; 1832–1909) was a Russian statesman, historian and "maecenas", the founder of the Russian Historian Society.