On September 1, 1992, we lost Vladimir N. Vinogradov - a famous glaciologist and geographer of Kamchatka, a member of the Glaciological Department Bureau of Geophysical Committee (the Academy of Science, USSR).
Vladimir N. Vinogradov was born in 1926, October 20, in Kineshma of the Ivanovskaya region. The life of millions of the people of his age was alike. He was called to military service in December, 1943, and met the Victory Day at Konigsberg. 7 years later he had got demobilized and came to Moscow to study at the University.

After graduating from the geographic faculty of the Moscow University Vladimir Vinogradov had been working at the University Scientific Museum for 2 years. In April, 1959 he changed his life greatly and went to Kamchatka. Working at the Kamchatka Complex Expedition of the Council studying productive forces (Academy of Science, USSR), he studied the geysers of Kamchatka, worked over the theme "Snows of Kamchatka".

At the Institute of Volcanology of the Siberian Department of the Academy of Science, USSR, since 1963 he was an executor of the themes connected with the study of the contemporary glaciation of Kamchatka's volcanic regions. He studied the forming and distribution of snow in Kamchatka, investigated the occurred avalanches and their consequences, studied the history of the researches dedicated to the contemporary glaciation in Kamchatka. In 1970, he defended his Candidate thesis, it was a success.

Vladimir N. Vinogradov is the author of about 100 scientific works, including 3 monographs. In 1968 he made the 20th volume of the Catalogue "Glaciers of the USSR". It was dedicated to glaciation of Kamchatka, the main attention being paid to the peculiar geographic location, climate conditions, morphology and conditions of this vast and insufficiently explored region. In 1975, appeared his main work "Contemporary glaciation of the regions of active volcanism"; it analyses the results of studying the ice and snow of Kamchatka, especially the region of Avachinsky and Karyaksky Volcanoes. Vladimir N. Vinogradov was rewarded with S.Dezhnev Prize by the Scientific Council of Geographic society of the USSR for this work. His last monograph "Kazelsky Glacier" issued in 1992 in St Petersburg, but because of his death Vladimir N. Vinogradov was not able to see it.

Vladimir N. Vinogradov was a man of rare kindness and ready sympathy. In 1961, Kamchatka department of Geographic society was restored mainly due to his activity. He was its permanent chairman. The department issued 10 volumes of collected articles "Geography of Kamchatka" and other works, the total number of pages being 145, as well as issues 25 and 27 of the series "Glaciological Researches" being issued by the Interdepartmental Committee of Geophysics of the Academy of Science. These issues were edited by Vladimir N. Vinogradov. Being the permanent participant of almost all All-Union Glaciological Symposia, Vladimir N. Vinogradov organized in 1981 the All-Union school-seminar in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky "Volcanism and glaciation interaction" which united prominent glaciologists of the country. The death broke off his work on the thesis for a Doctor's degree.

A new name appeared on the glaciological map of the peninsula, it is the name of Vinogradov Glacier. It is one of the biggest glaciers of the Tolbachinsky massif, it occupies the barrancos on the northern slope of the Ostry Tolbachik Volcano.

We shall keep Vladimir Vinogradov's clear memory in our hearts for long.