Petrovsky Street passes through the territories of the Southern and Central administrative districts of Moscow. Moreover, earlier she had other names, and in 1973 she was renamed.
Petrovsky Street in Moscow is named after Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky, the 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 native city of Sevsk, after which he entered the Moscow University at the natural sciences department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. The revolution of 1917 and the civil war made adjustments to the process of his education, which was repeatedly interrupted, 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 in 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 physical and mathematical sciences, and then became the dean of the faculty of physics and mathematics. He did not interrupt his work even during the Great Patriotic War, when the university was forced to relocate in Tashkent, and then to Ashgabat and Sverdlovsk. And in 1951, Ivan Georgievich was appointed rector of the university and led this educational institution until his death in 1973.
The scientific merits of Ivan Petrovsky were universally recognized. In 1943, he took on 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.
