Petrovsky Street passes through the territories of the Southern and Central Administrative Districts of Moscow. At the same time, it previously had other names, and in 1973 it was renamed.
Petrovsky Street in Moscow is named after Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky, a famous Soviet mathematician who made a significant contribution to the development of education in the USSR.
Ivan Petrovsky
Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky was born in 1901, on January 18, in the Oryol province, which today corresponds to the territory of the Bryansk region. At the age of 16, he graduated from the real school of his hometown of Sevsk, after which he entered Moscow University at the natural science department of the physics and mathematics faculty. The revolution of 1917 and the civil war made their own adjustments to the process of his education, which was interrupted several times, but in 1927 he still managed to finish his studies at the university, and then even go through graduate school.
Subsequently, Ivan Petrovsky worked for many years at his native Moscow University, devoting them to fundamental research in various fields of application of mathematics, including its interaction with other sciences, for example, physics. In the process of this activity, he received a doctorate in physics and mathematics, and then began to occupy the post of dean of the physics and mathematics faculty. He did not interrupt his work even during the Great Patriotic War, when the university was forced to move first to Tashkent, and then to Ashgabat and Sverdlovsk. And in 1951, Ivan Georgievich was appointed rector of the university and headed this educational institution until his death in 1973.
Ivan Petrovsky's scientific merits were universally recognized. In 1943 he took the position of Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, three years later he became its full member. and seven years later - a member of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences. For his work, he received two Stalin prizes, as well as the honorary title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
Petrovsky street
The street in honor of Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky in Moscow received its name literally a few months after his death: the academician died on January 15, 1973, and on April 24 of the same year, an official document was issued on assigning the name of Academician Petrovsky to the former Vystavochny Lane. Earlier this street was called Rizopolozhensky lane.
Akademik Petrovskogo Street today is geographically located in the Southern and Central Administrative Districts of Moscow, starting from Leninsky Prospekt and ending with the accession to Shabolovka Street. Public transport today does not go along this street, and the nearest stop with the same name is located on Leninsky Prospekt at its intersection with Akademik Petrovsky Street.
