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