SK-42 Reference System
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The SK-42 reference system also known as the Krasovsky
Feodosy Krasovsky
Feodosy Nikolaevich Krasovsky was a Russian and later Soviet astronomer and geodesist. He was born in Galich. In 1900 he graduated from the Mezhevoy Institute in Moscow; in 1907 he began working as a lecturer there.-Research work:...

 ellipsoid
Reference ellipsoid
In geodesy, a reference ellipsoid is a mathematically-defined surface that approximates the geoid, the truer figure of the Earth, or other planetary body....

, is a coordinate system established in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 in 1942 as Systema koordinat , and provides parameters which are linked to the geocentric Cartesian coordinate system
Cartesian coordinate system
A Cartesian coordinate system specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances from the point to two fixed perpendicular directed lines, measured in the same unit of length...

 PZ-90. It was used in geodetic calculations, notably in military mapping and determining state borders.
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