Naum Akhiezer, Nikolai Chebotaryov, Mikhailo Kravchuk, and Boris Delaunay were among his students.

Dmitry Grave was educated at the University of St Petersburg where he studied under Chebyshev and his students Korkin, Zolotarev and Markov.

For his master's degree Grave studied Jacobi's methods for the three-body problem, a topic suggested by Korkin.

The work, on equal area plane projections of the sphere, built on ideas of Euler, Joseph Louis Lagrange and Chebyshev.

His work at the Institute of Mathematics was in addition to his chair at Kyiv University which he continued to hold.