Alexander Kruber
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Alexander Alexandrovich Kruber (Russian: Александр Александрович Крубер; August 22 [O.S. August 8] 1871 – December 15, 1941) was a Soviet geographer, professor, the founder of the Russian and Soviet karstology.[1]
Biography[edit]
Alexander Kruber was born in Istra (formerly Voskresensk), Russia. He graduated from the Moscow University in 1897. He published a textbook in 1917, General Earth Science.[1] He became chairman of the Geography Department of the Moscow University in 1919, succeeding Dmitry Anuchin in the post.[1] Anuchin was one of the Kruber's teachers at the Moscow University.[1] Then Kruber served as the director of the Scientific Research Institute of Geography during 1923-1927. Since 1927 he could no longer work due to grave health problems.
He studied karst structures of the East European Plain, Crimea, and Caucasus.
A mountain ridge on the Iturup Island (Kruber Ridge), a karst cavity in the Qarabiy yayla plateau,[2] Crimea, and a karst cave in Georgia (Krubera Cave) are named after him.
Books[edit]
- Гидрография карста, М., 1913
- Карстовая область горного Крыма, М., 1915
- Общее землеведение, 5 изд., ч. 1—3, М., 1938
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Oldfield, Jonathan D.; Shaw, Denis J.B. (2015). "A Russian geographical tradition? The contested canon of Russian and Soviet geography, 1884–1953". Journal of Historical Geography. 49: 79–80. doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2015.04.015.
- ^ Караби-яйла travel.org.ua
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