On the 110th anniversary of Spiridon Akinfovich Korobkov

The article is dedicated to Doctor of Technology, geodetic scientist, professor of Leningrad Mining Institute Spiridon Akinfovich Korobkov (1914–2007). Having started as a student at Saratov Geodetic Technical School, studies at Moscow Institute of Engineers of Geodesy, Aerial Photography and Cartography he resulted to Doctor’s degree (1973) and professor (1974). S. A. Korobkov participated in the Great Patriotic War. His military service began in 1941 in the Special Moscow Air Defense Army, and was over in 1946 as an assistant to the head of the topographic department of the Air Defense Corps headquarters. From 1953 to 2007, he taught at the Mining Institute (in 1961 – senior lecturer, from 1966 – associate professor, after 1974 – full professor). In 1976 became the Head of the Department of Higher Geodesy and Photogrammetry instead of the late L. N. Kell. The authors provide information on the work activities, main scientific achievements, and his own recollections about the service in the military topographic units of the Soviet Army from November 1941 to December 1946