Fuss Victor Egorovich 
(09.11.1839 –31.03(12.04).1915)

Russian astronomer. 
Born in Pulkovo. Coming from an academic family. His ancestors moved to Russia from Germany at the end of the XVIII century and were associated with the Russian Academy of Sciences since the time of L. Euler. 
V.V. Akhmatov wrote about Fuss, “... he was a German only by his last name and religion, and, perhaps, by his mental attitude and character, expressed in the systematic and painstaking nature of his scientific works. His sympathies were entirely on the side of Russia”. Fuss spent his adolescent years in Vilna at the observatory there headed by his father. After graduating from high school, he entered the St. Petersburg University, but, not satisfied with teaching there, he transferred to the University of Dorpat, then famous for his training and the first-class astronomical observatory created by V.Ya. Struve. 
After graduating from university in 1861, Fuss moved to the Pulkovo Observatory, taking first the position of supernumerary astronomer, and then adjunct. Here he replenished and developed the knowledge gained at the university, conducted observations on various tools. During this period, he published the results of his research in the Izvestia of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, he defended his thesis for the title of Master of Astronomy at the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of St. Petersburg University. 
The next and main stage of his life began in 1871 from the moment of his transfer to the Naval Department as an astronomer at the Marine Astronomical Observatory in Kronstadt, where he worked until his retirement in 1904. In Kronstadt he dealt with issues related to the use of astronomy in navigation. Being the head of the observatory for the study of chronometers, sextants and other navigation tools, Fuss paid a lot of effort and attention to the study of astronomical factors affecting the operation of these instruments and, consequently, on the accuracy of ship coordination. 
He also worked on determining the place in the fog, having developed an artificial horizon-collimator, investigated the effects on the accuracy of observations of the effect of earth refraction. 
Dealing with the processing of definitions of the geographical location of various locations, Fuss traveled on numerous business trips, visiting Lake Ladoga and Onega, the White Sea, and Novaya Zemlya, where he spent the winter in 1882-1883. at the station Small Karmakuly, the mouth of the Ob. 
Already retired, Fuss continued his scientific work. He was a worthy descendant of his famous ancestors, rendering great services to Russian science. Almost everything he wrote was printed in Russian and directly entered the treasury of Russian knowledge. 
He died in Petrograd, buried in the Smolensk cemetery. The grave is not preserved. 
Cape and peninsula in Volchiy Bay on the Peninsula on Taimyr. The cape was named by the Russian Polar Expedition in 1900, and the peninsula Dixon hydrographs in 1961.