be transferred to academic work. In 1923 – 1928 he was the rector of Moscow Land Survey Institute; since 1928 to 1929 – the rector of Leningrad Polytechnical Institute. Later he returned to Moscow Land Survey Institute where he organized the department of aerial survey. In 1938 he received the degree of candidate of technical sciences. He gave lectures on project geometry, hydraulics and aerial surveying. He was the head of the National Scientific Institute of Locomotive Construction, took part in organizing building the Moskva-Volga Canal, and gave the technical conclusion on the project of Dnieper Hydroelectric Station. Family Spouse: Alevtina Ivanovna Rakitina (1880–1968). Children: Sofia (born 1899, Moscow), Anna (b. 1906), Andrey (b. 1908–1965), a lecturer and musician, twins Nikolay (1913–1977), engineer, and Natalia (b. 1913–1991). Pyotr Kobozev lived in Moscow in the 3rd House of the Soviets. Bibliography P. Kobozev was mentioned in the book Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed. Publications by Pyotr Kobozev Fighting for the masses. For the power of the Soviets. Memoirs of the participants of the Civil war in Orenburg (Russian: В борьбе за массы.—За власть Советов. Воспоминания участников гражданской войны в Оренбурге. Чкалов, 1957). Fighting Dutov's movement, part of the Book 'Kazakhstan in the flame of the civil war' (Russian: Борьба с дутовщиной.— В кн.: Казахстан в огне гражданской войны. Алма-Ата, 1960). Films Pyotr Kobozev (played by Armen Djigarkhanyan) is a character in the Uzbek 1970 film 'Extraordinary comissar' (Russian: Чрезвычайный комиссар) about the years of the Soviet regime establishment in Turkestan. Memorials In Orenburg there is a monument dedicated to Pyotr Kobozev. It was set up in 1957. Its location is the park at the intersection of the Kobozev and Postnikov streets. It is a bust created by A. Chernikova. Streets in a number of cities are named after P. Kobozev: Orenburg, Baku, Aktobe, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Donetsk, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok. References 1878 births 1941 deaths People from Shilovsky District People from Ryazan Governorate Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Old Bolsheviks Communist Party of the Soviet Union members People's commissars and ministers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Government ministers of the Far Eastern Republic People of the Russian Civil War