Aleksandr Iosifovich Popov (russian: Алекса́ндр Ио́сифович Попо́в; 7 June 1913 in
Dorpat
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Governorate of Livonia
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Geography
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Russian Empire
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– 23 April 1993 in
Moscow
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Russia
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[ was a ]Soviet
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permafrost
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researcher at the Moscow State University
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. He served as head of the Department of Cryolithology and Glaciology. Popov was a member of the International Commission on Periglacial Morphology of the International Geographical Union
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. He organized and led numerous expeditions to investigate permafrost and deep seasonal freezing in the Soviet Union.[Попов А.И. Заслуженный деятель науки РСФСР (1988)]
/ref> Popov edited the geocryological map of the Soviet Union that was published in 1986.[General Geocryology, p. 489]
See also
*Jan Dylik
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*Konstantin Markov
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References
1913 births
1993 deaths
People from Tartu
People from Kreis Dorpat
Soviet geomorphologists
Academic staff of Moscow State University
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