Alexander Kruber

Geologist, Deceased Person

1871 – 1941

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Who was Alexander Kruber?

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kruber was a Soviet geographer, professor, the founder of the Russian and Soviet karstology.

Alexander Kruber was born in Istra, Russia. He graduated from the Moscow University in 1897. He became chairman of the Geography Department of the Moscow University in 1919 and 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, a carst cavity in the Karabi-Yayla Plateau, Crimea, and a karst cave in Caucasus are named after him.

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Born
1871
Profession
Education
  • Moscow State University
Died
Dec 15, 1941

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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