Biography Makarov Stepan Osipovich
Makarov, Stepan Osipovich (1848) – Rear Admiral in 1865 at the naval service, in 1872 – 1876., Was under Admiral Popov, was busy device unsinkable devices on our armored ships. In the Turkish war in 1877 distinguished himself in command of the ship "Grand Duke Constantine. In 1881 he made a study of flows Bosphorus. The results of these studies, M. printed in the book "On the exchange of waters of the Black and Mediterranean Seas" (1883). In another essay "The Knight and the Pacific" (1893) M. presented the results of studies of temperature and specific gravity of seawater in the North Pacific Ocean, produced M. during the world tour (1886 – 1889) on the corvette "Vityaz". From 1891 to 1894 AM was the chief inspector of naval artillery, and in 1895 commanded the Pacific fleet during the Sino-Japanese disputes.