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List of Wikipedia articles about notable Russian Earth scientists
Vasily Dokuchaev , the founder of
soil science
This list of
Russian
Earth scientists includes the notable
geographers ,
geologists ,
oceanographers ,
meteorologists ,
ecologists and other representatives of
Earth sciences from the
Russian Federation , the
Soviet Union , the
Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia.
Alphabetical list
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B
Karl Baer , naturalist, formulated the geological
Baer's law on
river erosion , co-founder of the
Russian Geographical Society
Valeri Barsukov , geologist
Vladimir Belousov , geologist
Lev Berg , determined the depth of
Central Asian lakes, including
Balkhash Lake and
Issyk Kul , a head of the
Soviet Geographical Society
Yuri Bilibin , geologist, studied
placer geology and organized expeditions that discovered gold deposits in Eastern Siberia
Mariya Borodayevskaya , geologist
Leonid Brekhovskikh , founder of modern
acoustical oceanography , discovered the
deep sound channel , the first to observe
mesoscale ocean eddies
Chersky
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D
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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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Köppen
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Stanislav Kalesnik ,
geographer
Alexander Karpinsky , geologist and mineralogist, the first President of the
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Alexander Keyserling , naturalist, a founder of Russian geology
Maria Klenova , a founder of
marine geology , polar explorer
Wladimir Köppen ,
meteorologist and author of the commonly used
Köppen climate classification
Nikolai Korzhenevskiy , geographer
Stepan Krasheninnikov , geographer, the first Russian naturalist, made the first scientific description of
Kamchatka
Peter Kropotkin , geographer
Alexander Kruber , founder of Russian
karstology
Nikolai Kudryavtsev , author of modern
abiogenic theory for origin of
petroleum , coordinated oil and gas exploration in
Siberia
Leonid Kulik , meteorite researcher, the first to study
Tunguska event
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Dmitry Lachinov ,
meteorologist
Vladimir Larin , geologist
Irina Levshakova , paleontologist and geologist
Victor Linetsky , geologist
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
Middendorf
M
Obruchev
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P
R
Shokalsky
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Farman Salmanov , discoverer of giant
oil fields in
West Siberia
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
Nikolay Shatsky , made a comprehensive
tectonic map of
North Eurasia , introduced
Riphean and
Baikalian geological
stages
Pyotr Shirshov , polar explorer, founder of the
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology , proved that there is life in high latitudes of the
Arctic Ocean
Yuly Shokalsky , first head of the
Soviet Geographical Society , coined the term "
World Ocean "
Sergey Smirnov , geologist
Boris Sokolov , geologist
Kozma Spassky-Avtonomov , meteorologist
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V
Zimov
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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
Yevdokim Zyablovskiy , geographer
See also