Biography and information
B. in St.-Petersburg. He graduated from the cadet. the corps and the military. -topographic. Uch-school. Worked in the Cartographic. establishment Housing military. topographers. In 1907 he designed the first national. military luminous compass - "compass of Hadrian". Taught at Uch-cabbage soup and in universities of St. Petersburg. In 1910 - ed.- ed. "Topographic and geodetic magazine." Since 1911.. member. Rus. geographic. Ob-VA. 1917. part of the maps. 1919 - specialist Higher. geodesic. control. In 1920 he worked in Moscow. took part in those. From 1922 - owner. hood. -reproduct. division of Goznak, headed redakts. the Council and implemented cartographic. edit the first Atlas of the USSR. The author of the coat of arms of the USSR, drawings first. Sov. tenner, transport certificate, credit ruble, bonds of the State. loan first five-year plan. In 1928 he designed the "Atlas of the USSR" in 1934 manufactured the brand name "Big Owls. Atlas of the World", created a number of new. cartographer. fonts. From 1935 he lived in the city of Ostashkov (street Uritsky 7), was buried there (the grave in the Park near the present-day. hotel "Seliger" is not preserved). Lit.: Egorov N. I. Fund cartographer V. N. Hadrian //the Soviet archives. 1976. N5; Vlasov A. D. To the question on creation of the coat of arms of the USSR //Museum Affairs in the USSR: Sat. scientific. Tr. M., 1979; his First Soviet chervonets // Philately of the USSR. 1979. N2; Grigoriev V. S. Adrianov I. V. the author of the emblem of the USSR cartographer-artist //news of higher educational institutions. Geodesy and aerial photography. 1984. N1.
