Marija Alfredovna Glazovskaya

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Marija Alfredowna Glasowskaja ( Russian Мария Альфредовна Глазовская ; born January 13 . Jul / 26. January  1912 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 20th November 2016 in Moscow ) was a Soviet - Russian soil scientist , geochemist and high school teacher .

Life

The doctor's daughter Glazovskaya attended secondary school in Kolpino with graduation in 1929 and then began studying at the Leningrad Agricultural Institute . After a year she moved to the Leningrad University (LGU) in the Faculty of Soil Geography . In 1934 she graduated as soil science from -Spezialistin and began postgraduate at the Research Institute for Economic Geography of the LGU with Boris Borisovich Polynow . In 1937, after defending her candidate dissertation , she received her doctorate as a candidate for geographic sciences. She was now assistant at the Chair of Soil Geography at the Faculty of Geography at LGU and took part in the expeditions of the Moscow Docuchayev Institute of Soil Science of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR, since 1991 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)).

1939–1952 Glazovskaya lived in Alma-Ata . She headed the Soil Genesis Sector of the Institute of Soil Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh Socialist Soviet Republic and taught soil science and soil geography at the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute.

In 1952 Glazovskaya returned to Moscow and worked in the Institute of Geography of the AN-SSSR until 1956. In 1952 she became a lecturer at the Faculty of Geography at Lomonossow University Moscow (MGU). After defending her doctoral dissertation on the Tian Shan , she received her doctorate in geographic sciences in 1953. In 1954, she was appointed professor and headed the chair for physical geography . From 1959 she headed the chair for geochemistry of landscapes and soil geography. She gave lectures on the basics of soil science and soil geography, the soils of the world, geochemistry of the landscapes of the USSR , geochemical functions of microorganisms and geochemistry of natural and artificial landscapes. Her students included Valerian Afanasjewitsch Snytko and Igor Wassiljewitsch Ivanov .

In 1968 Glazovskaya took on the IX. World Congress of Soil Science in Adelaide . There she took part in soil science expeditions and used the results in her lectures. In 1987 she retired and was an advisory professor. She was a member of the Russian Geographical Society and the Docuchayev Society of Soil Scientists. She was a corresponding member of the International Commission for the use of land and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations .

Glazovskaya was married to Vitaly Gordijenko, who died as a soldier in the Red Army in the Brest Fortress at the beginning of the German-Soviet War . The ecologist Nikita Fyodorowitsch Glasowski and the glaciologist Andrei Fyodorowitsch Glasowski were her sons.

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Individual evidence

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  2. a b c d Большая российская энциклопедия: ГЛАЗО́ВСКАЯ Мария Альфредовна (accessed March 4, 2020).
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  4. Снытко В. А., Собисевич А. В .: Природа Австралии в научных исследованиях М.А. Глазовской . In: Вестник Академии наук Чеченской Республики . No. 2 , 2019, p. 88-92 ( [1] [accessed March 4, 2020]).
  5. Самая старая исследовательница Казахстана скончалась на 105-м году жизни (accessed March 4, 2020).
  6. RAN: Глазовская Мария Альфредовна (accessed March 4, 2020).