THE ODESSA LANDSHAFTOVEDCHESKY CENTER: HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT, DIRECTION OF RESEARCHES, RESULTS

The geographical school of university always differed a variety of directions of researches and uncommon persons of researchers, as causes an urgency and expediency of special consideration of history of the centre. The basic methods of research had been chosen the critical analysis of information sources, a method of problem dating and personification, a comparative-historical method. The professor G. I. Tanfilev who used for the first time a method of typology of landscapes by working out of schemes of geographical division into districts of the Kherson and Odessa provinces was the founder of the Odessa centre of studying of landscapes. Geographical division into districts became the basic direction of researches for post-war generation of the Odessa geographers S. T. Belozorova, G. A. Mishchenko, G. P. Mishchenko, F. E. Petrunja, T. P. Fedorchenko. The considerable contribution to development of the Odessa centre has made A. G. Topchiev who has developed a technique of use of mathematical statistics for the analysis of morphological structure of landscapes. Blossoming of the Odessa centre of studying of landscapes has come with arrival to a science about G. I. Shvebsa landscape which has created school of thought of the constructive doctrine about a landscape. Today a science about landscapes of the Odessa University represents T. D. Borisevich, G. P. Pilipenko, O. I. Tsurkan, etc. The Odessa centre of studying of landscapes has interesting on important scientific events and not ordinary persons history. The basic directions of researches of the centre are mapping of landscapes, studying of morphology and functioning of landscapes for the purpose of soil-protective designing, research of modern landscapes as natural and economic territorial systems, etc.