IN MEMORY OF SERGEY VLADIMIROVICH MOTYZHEV (1946–2024)

The paper is devoted to a brief description of the life path and work achievements of Sergey Vladimirovich Motyzhev, an outstanding engineer, innovator, scientist-organizer, who made a significant contribution to the development of drifter technologies for ocean research both in domestic and foreign science. The company “Marlin-Yug” created by him is a manufacturer of a wide class of autonomous surface buoys with satellite communications, designed to measure the parameters of the aquatic environment in various waters of the World Ocean, including icecovered Polar regions. His name will forever remain in the history of marine instrumentation aimed at the development of instrumental methods for operational long-term observations of the upper ocean layer and the near-water atmosphere.