Vladimir Semenkovich
Vladimir Nikolayevich Semenkovich (Russian: Владимир Николаевич Семенкович, 1861 – 1932) was a Russian ethnologist and archaeologist, best known for his work in historical geography of Upper Don and Oka Gelonians and Mordvins where he had identified some of the Herodotus's tribes with contemporary ethnic groups of the Russian Empire and described the difference between physical, and geographical conditions of European Russia in the fifth century BC and the modern period. == Biography == Vladimir Semenkovich graduated from Kronstadt Higher Naval Technical School in 1883 and was assigned to the battleship Chesma as Engineer Officer (Lieutenant of Imperial Russian Navy) where he served until 1891.