List of Russian Earth scientists

Alphabetical list

A

• 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

  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
• Leonid Brekhovskikh, founder of modern acoustical oceanography, discovered the deep sound channel, the first to observe mesoscale ocean eddies

C

• 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

  D

• Vasily Dokuchaev, founder of soil science, created the first soil classification, determined the five factors for soil formation

  E

• Raul–Yuri Ervier, geologist, organizer and head of wide-ranging geological explorations that discovered of the largest oil and gas fields in Western Siberia

  F

• Alexander Fersman, a founder of geochemistry, discovered copper in Monchegorsk, apatites in Khibiny, sulfur in Central Asia

  G

• 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, soil scientist and agrochemist.
• Konstantin Glinka, influential Russian soil scientist.
• Ivan Gubkin, founder of the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

K

• 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

  L

• Dmitry Lachinov, meteorologist
• Vladimir Larin, 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

M

• 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

O

• 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

  P

• 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

  R

• Voin Rimsky-Korsakov, geographer
• Vladimir Rusanov, geologist
• Vasiliy E. Ruzhentsev, geologist

S

• 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

  T

• 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

  U

• Nikolay Urvantsev, geologist
• Mikhail Usov, geologist
• Tatyana Ustinova, geographer

  V

• 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

Z

• 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