List of Russian Earth Scientists (70 items)report

• Vladimir Abazarov, geologist, discoverer of Samotlor oil field, the largest Russian oil field
  
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• Dmitry Anuchin, anthropologist and geographer, coined the term "anthroposphere", determined the location of the Volga river source
  
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• Andrey Arkhangelsky, geologist
  
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• Karl Baer, naturalist, formulated the geological Baer's law on river erosion, co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society
  
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• Valeri Barsukov, geologist
  
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• Vladimir Belousov, geologist
  
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• Lev Berg, determined the depth of Central Asian lakes, including Balkhash Lake and Issyk Kul, a head of the Soviet Geographical Society
  
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• Yuri Bilibin, geologist, studied placer geology and organized expeditions that discovered gold deposits in Eastern Siberia
  
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• Leonid Brekhovskikh, founder of modern acoustical oceanography, discovered the deep sound channel, the first to observe mesoscale ocean eddies
  
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• Feodosy Chernyshov, geologist
  
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• Ivan Chersky, paleontologist, geologist and explorer of Siberia, explained the origin of Lake Baikal, pioneered the geomorphological evolution theory
  
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• Pyotr Chikhachyov, early geographer and geologist of Central Asia, discovered Kuznetsk Coal Basin
  
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• Vasily Dokuchaev, founder of soil science, created the first soil classification, determined the five factors for soil formation
  
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• Raul–Yuri Ervier, geologist, organizer and head of wide-ranging geological explorations that discovered of the largest oil and gas fields in Western Siberia
  
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• Alexander Fersman, a founder of geochemistry, discovered copper in Monchegorsk, apatites in Khibiny, sulfur in Central Asia
  
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• Grigory Gamburtsev, Soviet seismologist, invented a number of seismological methods and devices
  
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• Boris Golitsyn, inventor of electromagnetic seismograph, the president of International Association of Seismology
  
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• Maria Glazovskaya, soil scientist and agrochemist.
  
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• Konstantin Glinka, influential Russian soil scientist.
  
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• Ivan Gubkin, founder of the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
  
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• Stanislav Kalesnik, geographer
  
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• Alexander Karpinsky, geologist and mineralogist, the first President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences
  
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• Alexander Keyserling, naturalist, a founder of Russian geology
  
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• Maria Klenova, a founder of marine geology, polar explorer
  
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• Wladimir Köppen, meteorologist and author of the commonly used Köppen climate classification
  
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• Nikolai Korzhenevskiy, geographer
  
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• Stepan Krasheninnikov, geographer, the first Russian naturalist, made the first scientific description of Kamchatka
  
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• Peter Kropotkin, geographer
  
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• Alexander Kruber, founder of Russian karstology
  
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• Nikolai Kudryavtsev, author of modern abiogenic theory for origin of petroleum, coordinated oil and gas exploration in Siberia
  
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• Leonid Kulik, meteorite researcher, the first to study Tunguska event
  
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• Dmitry Lachinov, meteorologist
  
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• Vladimir Larin, geologist
  
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• Victor Linetsky, geologist
  
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• Mikhail Lomonosov, polymath, suggested the organic origin of soil, peat, coal, petroleum and amber; forerunner of the continental drift theory, pioneer researcher of atmospheric electricity
  
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• Alexander Middendorf, zoologist and explorer, founder of permafrost science, determined the southern border of permafrost
  
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• Pavel Molchanov, meteorologist inventor of radiosonde
  
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• Andrei Monin, meteorologist
  
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• Dmitrii Mushketov, geologist
  
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• Ivan Mushketov, made the first geological map of Turkestan
  
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• Konstantin K. Markov, geomorphologist
  
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• Vladimir Obruchev, geologist and explorer, author of the comprehensive Geology of Siberia and two popular science fiction novels,Plutonia and Sannikov Land
  
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• Alexander Obukhov, meteorologist
  
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• Fyodor Panayev, meteorologist
  
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• Vasiliy Podshibyakin, geologist, discoverer of Urengoy gas field
  
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• Pavel Polian, geographer
  
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• Mikhail Pomortsev, meteorologist, inventor of the nephoscope
  
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• Aleksandr Popov, permafrost researcher
  
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• Vladimir Porfiriev, geologist
  
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• Voin Rimsky-Korsakov, geographer
  
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• Vladimir Rusanov, geologist
  
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• Vasiliy E. Ruzhentsev, geologist
  
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• Farman Salmanov, discoverer of giant oil fields in West Siberia
  
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• Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, explorer of the Tian Shan Mountains, for 40 years the head of the Russian Geographical Society, prominent statistician and organiser of the first Russian Empire Census
  
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• Nikolay Shatsky, made a comprehensive tectonic map of North Eurasia, introduced Riphean and Baikalian geological stages
  
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• Pyotr Shirshov, polar explorer, founder of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, proved that there is life in high latitudes of the Arctic Ocean
  
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• Yuly Shokalsky, first head of the Soviet Geographical Society, coined the term "World Ocean"
  
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• Sergey Smirnov, geologist
  
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• Boris Sokolov, geologist
  
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• Kozma Spassky-Avtonomov, meteorologist
  
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• Mikhail Tetyaev, geologist
  
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• Andrey Tikhonov, mathematician and inventor of magnetotellurics in geology
  
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• Aleksey Tillo, made the first correct hypsometric map of European Russia, coined the term "Central Russian Upland", measured the lengths of the main Russian rivers
  
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• Nikolay Urvantsev, geologist
  
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• Mikhail Usov, geologist
  
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• Tatyana Ustinova, geographer
  
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• Nikolai Vavilov, geographer
  
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• Vladimir Vernadsky, philosopher and geologist, a founder of geochemistry, biogeochemistry and radiogeology, creator of noosphere theory, popularized the term "biosphere" and developed biosphere theory
  
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• Sergey Zimov, geophysicist specialising in arctic and subarctic ecology, known for advocating the theory that human overhunting of large herbivores during the Pleistocene caused Siberia's grassland-steppe ecosystem to disappear, for raising awareness of the roles permafrost and thermokarst lakes play in the global carbon cycle, and for creating Pleistocene Park
  
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• Yevdokim Zyablovskiy, geographer
  
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