Alexander Kruber Explained

Alexander Alexandrovich Kruber (Russian: Александр Александрович Крубер; – December 15, 1941) was a Soviet geographer, professor, the founder of the Russian and Soviet karstology.[1]

Biography

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

Notes and References

  1. Oldfield. Jonathan D.. Shaw. Denis J.B.. A Russian geographical tradition? The contested canon of Russian and Soviet geography, 1884–1953. Journal of Historical Geography. 49. 2015. 10.1016/j.jhg.2015.04.015. 79–80.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20120206041118/http://travel.org.ua/rus/library/library.php?book=6&p=14 Караби-яйла