Stanislav Vikentyevich Kalesnik (Russian: Станислав Викентьевич Калесник; 23 January 1901 – 13 September 1977) was a Soviet glaciologist, physical geographer, and academician (1968).
In 1955, Stanislav Kalesnik was appointed head of the Limnology Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
Kalesnik's principal works are dedicated to theoretical topics of geoscience, landscape science and glaciology, as well as geomorphology of Central Tian Shan and Dzungarian Alatau.
Stanislav Kalesnik is known to have introduced several new concepts and terms, such as chionosphere (хионосфера), energy of glacierization (энергия оледенения), and geographical structure (географическая структура).
This article includes content derived from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969–1978, which is partially in the public domain.