Alexander Kruber
Alexander Alexandrovich Kruber[a] (Russian: Александр Александрович Крубер; August 22 [O.S. August 8] 1871 – December 15, 1941) was a Russian and Soviet geographer and professor. He was the founder of Russian and Soviet karstology.[1]
Biography
Alexander Kruber was born in Voskresensk, Russia (now Istra). He graduated from Imperial Moscow University in 1897. He published a textbook in 1917, titled General Earth Science.[1] He became the chairman of the Geography Department of Moscow University in 1919, succeeding Dmitry Anuchin.[1] Anuchin was one of Kruber's teachers at Moscow University.[1] Kruber then served as the director of the Scientific Research Institute of Geography from 1923 to 1927. From 1927, he could no longer work due to significant health problems.
He studied the 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[2] Crimea, and a karst cave in Georgia (Krubera Cave), are named after him.
Books
- Гидрография карста, М., 1913
- Карстовая область горного Крыма, М., 1915
- Общее землеведение, 5 изд., ч. 1—3, М., 1938
Notes
- ↑ Also transliterated as Aleksandr and Aleksandrovich.
References
- 1 2 3 4 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