List of Russian earth scientists

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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.

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Vladimir Abazarov, geologist, discoverer of Samotlor oil field, the largest Russian oil field

Dmitry Anuchin, anthropologist and geographer, coined the term "anthroposphere", determined the location of the Volga river source

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

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

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

Ivan Chersky, paleontologist, geologist and explorer of Siberia, explained the origin of Lake Baikal, pioneered the geomorphological evolution theory

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

Boris Golitsyn, inventor of electromagnetic seismograph, the president of International Association of Seismology

Maria Glazovskaya

Ivan Gubkin, founder of the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

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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

Victor Linetsky, geologist

Mikhail Lomonosov, polymath, suggested the organic origin of soil, peat, coal, petroleum and amber; forerrunner 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

Pavel Molchanov, meteorologist inventor of radiosonde

Andrei Monin, meteorologist

Dmitrii Mushketov, geologist

Ivan Mushketov, made the first geological map of Turkestan

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

Alexander Obukhov, meteorologist

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Fyodor Panayev, meteorologist

Vasiliy Podshibyakin, geologist, discoverer of Urengoy gas field

Pavel Polian, geographer

Mikhail Pomortsev, meteorologist, inventor of the nephoscope

Aleksandr Popov, permafrost researcher

Vladimir Porfiriev, geologist

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Voin Rimsky-Korsakov, geographer

Vladimir Rusanov, geologist

Vasiliy E. Ruzhentsev, geologist

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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, the 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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Mikhail Tetyaev, geologist

Andrey Tikhonov, mathematician and inventor of magnetotellurics in geology

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

Mikhail Usov, geologist

Tatyana Ustinova, geographer

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Nikolai Vavilov, geographer

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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V. P. Zenkovich, coastal geomorphologist, defined some basics of coastal processes, outlined the modern Danube delta evolution theory

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

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