Innokenti Petrovich Gerasimov

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Innokenty Petrovich Gerasimov ( Russian Иннокентий Петрович Герасимов * November 26 . Jul / 9. December  1905 greg. In Kostroma , † the thirtieth March 1985 in Moscow ) was a Soviet geographer and soil scientist .

Studies and academic career

After attending school in Kostroma, he studied at the Geography Institute in Petrograd from 1922 to 1926. During his studies, he heard lectures from Lev Semjonowitsch Berg (1876–1950), Alexander Evgenjewitsch Fersman (1883–1945), Sergei Semonowitsch Neustrujew (1874 –1928) and Wladimir Nikolajewitsch Sukatschow (1880–1967). Neustruyev accompanied his aspiration . In 1929 he graduated from Leningrad University. In 1929 he accepted a scientific position at the Soil Science Institute Docuchayev . After Leonid Iwanowitsch Prasolow (1875-1954) left the company in 1936, he headed the Soil Geography and Cartography Department .

Doctorate, professorship and professor for soil geography

With his work main development features of the present surface Turan he obtained in 1936 the doctorate to the doctor of geographical sciences (Dr. sc. Geogr.). He was appointed professor in 1939 and lectured at the Berg Institute of Leningrad University. In the same year he began teaching at Lomonosov University in Moscow . There he set up the chair for soil geography at the Faculty of Geography. In 1951 he was appointed director of the Institute of Geography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . He was appointed director of the Institute of Geography of the Siberian Department of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1957, where he also participated in the establishment of the institution. In 1958 he took over the position of deputy chairman of the Commission on the Problems of the North. In the same year he became editor-in-chief of the magazine Izvestia Akademi nauk SSSR (Serija gepgraphischeskaja) (German: News of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (geographical series)). In 1964 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Scientific activities

Its main activities related to the disciplines of geomorphology , the pedogenesis , the ground geography , the Quartärgeographie , the soil mapping and physical geography . For the area of ​​the Soviet Union , he examined the soils of the Urals , Siberia and the areas of Central Asia. For the area of ​​the subtropical dry forests and their shrubbery zones, he examined the cinnamon-brown soils there.

For the entire earth and the Soviet Union he created works on the systematics of soils and soil geography. His work on the peculiarities of the climate of the plains of the Soviet Union and the adjoining countries from 1933 became world-famous. In 1939 he published the work A New Scheme of the General Classification of Soils of the Soviet Union with AA Zawalitschin and EN Ivanova . This was followed by publications on soil maps of the continents in the physical-geopraphic world atlas , which was published in the Soviet Union and translated in Israel. During this work he led the cycling campaign through a college.

In 1960 he edited a textbook on the basics of soil geography and soil science with MA Glazowskaja and A. Gourewitsch. With Markov he wrote a paper on the Ice Age in the areas of the northern zones of the earth and the territory of the USSR . With regard to the subtropical soils, he wrote theoretical and special studies. His work contributed significantly to the organizational deepening of the further development of Soviet soil science. Special effects in this regard were also evident in Bulgaria. When Ivan Vladimirovich Tyurin died in 1962, he succeeded him in the presidency of the Soviet Union Society for Soil Science based in Moscow. He wrote more than 180 publications in professional journals and numerous publications from scientific conferences.

Fonts

  • The natural areas of the Orenburg Governorate , 1918 (Russian)
  • A new pattern of the general classification of soils in the Soviet Union with AA Zavalishin and EN Ivanova, in: 7 (1939), p. 10–43 (Russian)
  • The History of Glaciation in Northern Eurasia Review of The Glacial Period in the Territory of the USSR with CC Nikiforoff and KK Markov, in: Geographical Review, April, 1941, Vol. 31, No. 2, p. 343-345
  • The Geographical Study of Agricultural Land Use , in: Geographical Journal, December, 1958, Vol. 124, No. 4, p. 452-461
  • Recent vertical movements of the earth's crust in the territory of the Western European USSR , St. Louis, 1958 (English)
  • Recent tectonic movements of the earth's crust and methods of their study with JA Mescerjakov, Moscow 1961 (English)
  • Scientific principles of soil systematics and classification , Jerusalem 1962 (English)
  • Humus-carbonate soils of the Sochi District and their transition to brown forest soils , Jerusalem 1963
  • Fundamentals of soil science and soil geography with MA Glazovskaja and A. Gourevitch, Jerusalem 1965 (English)
  • Physical-geographic atlas of the world with American Geographical Society et al., New York 1965
  • Buried soils and their paleogeographic significance , Jerusalem 1966
  • Laterites and lateritic soils , Jerusalem 1966
  • The distinctiveness of Siberia's genetic soil types , Washington 1966
  • Recent crustal movements , Jerusalem, 1967 (English)
  • Review of The Morphology of the Earth (Morphostructure and Morphosculpture) with D. Wileman and JA Mescheriakov, in: Geographical Journal, September, 1968, Vol. 134, No. 3, p. 434-435
  • Resources of biosphere on the territory of the USSR: scientific principles of rational use and conservation , Moscow 1968 (English)
  • Kazakhstan with BA Fedorovic, Moscow 1969 (Russian)
  • Natural resources of the Soviet Union: Their use and renewal with DL Armand and KM Yefron, San Francisco 1971 (English)
  • The Map of planation surfaces and crusts of weathering of the USSR with AV Sidorenko, Moscow 1972 (English)
  • Ukraina i Moldavija , Moscow 1972 (Russian)
  • The Periglacial Expansion of Marmots (Marmota) in Middle Europe during Late Pleistocene with RP Zimina, in: Journal of Mammalogy , May, 1973, Vol. 54, No. 2, p. 327-340
  • Elementary pedogenic processes as a basis for genetic diagnostics of soils , in: Pochvoveniye 5 (1975), p. 3–9 (Russian)
  • Man, society, and the environment: geographical aspects of the uses of natural resources and nature conservation , Moscow 1975 (English)
  • Genesis and geography of soils with Sergej Vladimirovich Zonn and VM Fridland, New Delhi (English)
  • Climatology, hydrology, glaciology , International Geographical Congress, 1976 ISBN 9780080231426
  • A Short history of geographical science in the Soviet Union , Moscow 1976 (English)
  • Man, society and the environment: geographical aspects of the use of natural resources and environmental protection , Berlin 1976 (German)
  • New methods in geomorphology and palaeogeography , Moscow 1976
  • The French-Soviet Geographical Symposium "The Alps-The Caucasus" with RP Zimina, VM Kotlijacov, DA Lilienberg and BS Preobragenski, in: Arctic and Alpine Research, May, 1976, Vol. 8, No. 2, p. 219-226
  • New soils map of the USSR , Hanover, NH: US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 1977
  • Sovremennye tendencii i metody v geografii , Moscow 1980 (Russian)
  • Integrated regional schemes to combat desertification: guidelines with IS Zonn, Moscow 1982 (English)
  • Geography and ecology: a collection of articles, 1971-1981 , Moscow 1983 (English)
  • Geographical prognostication: problems and prospects , Moscow 1986 (English)
  • Environmental problems in cities of developing countries , Moscow 1989 (English)

Membership and Appointments

  • 1929–1946: Associate member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • 1944: Member of the CPSU
  • 1944: Honored Scientist of the Kazakh SSR
  • 1946–1953: corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • 1960: Secretariat of the Department of Geography and Geology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • 1962: President of the Union Society of Soil Science in Moscow
  • Vice President of the International Geographical Union
  • Chairman of the Commission for the Complex Use of Experimental Stations
  • Chairman of the Scientific Council Theoretical Foundations of Soil Science in Moscow
  • 1967–1969: corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
  • 1969: Foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR
  • 1971: corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This institute later became the Faculty of Geography at Leningrad University
  2. ↑ Hans Wagemann (Ed.), From the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Berlin to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR, Volume II, Berlin 2006, p. 127
  3. ↑ Andrew I. Lebed, et al. (Ed.), Who is who in the USSR, 1965-66, New York, 1966, p. 256
  4. ↑ Hans Wagemann, ibid
  5. ↑ Hans Koch (ed.), 5000 Soviet heads - structure and face of a leadership collective, Cologne 1959, p. 353
  6. ↑ Hans Wagemann, ibid, p. 127
  7. ↑ Gerasimow has been a member of the CPSU with Hans Koch since 1945
  8. ↑ Werner Hartkopf, The Academy of Sciences of the GDR - A Contribution to Their History, Berlin 1983, p. 155
  9. ↑ Innokentij P. Gerasimov, Prof. Dr. sc. geogr. - Member profile
personal data
SURNAME Gerasimov, Innokenti Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Герасимов, Иннокентий Петрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian soil scientist and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Kostroma
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1985
Place of death Moscow