Aleksandr Popov (geologist)

Aleksandr Iosifovich Popov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ио́сифович Попо́в; 7 June 1913 in Dorpat, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire – 23 April 1993 in Moscow, Russia)[1] was a Soviet permafrost researcher at the Moscow State University. He served as head of the Department of Cryolithology and Glaciology.[2] Popov was a member of the International Commission on Periglacial Morphology of the International Geographical Union. He organized and led numerous expeditions to investigate permafrost and deep seasonal freezing in the Soviet Union.[1] Popov edited the geocryological map of the Soviet Union that was published in 1986.[3]

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  1. Попов А.И. Заслуженный деятель науки РСФСР (1988)
  2. General Geocryology, p. 24
  3. General Geocryology, p. 489
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