Innokenti Gerasimov

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Innokenti Gerasimov
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1978
Born(1905-12-09)December 9, 1905
DiedMarch 30, 1985(1985-03-30) (aged 79)
Moscow
NationalitySoviet
Scientific career
FieldsGeography
Pedology

Innokenti Petrovich Gerasimov (Russian: Герасимов, Иннокентий Петрович; 9 December 1905, Kostroma - 30 March 1985, Moscow)[1][not specific enough to verify] was a Soviet geographer and pedologist, professor, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1953).

Biography[]

He graduated from Leningrad State University (1926). Gerasimov participated in expeditions to Kazakhstan, Middle Asia, Western Siberia, on Ural, Far East and other. He traveled to Western Europe, India, China, Japan, Ceylon, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Guinea, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, United States, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia.

Gerasimov also was known for his work in geomorphology, the study of the earth's surface relief.

As the director of the Institute of Geography since 1951, he directed research used in planning regional development projects and the building of towns and railroads.

A rare glimpse of the man can be found in a one and a half minute behind the scenes documentary featured as part of the 'Coming From The Movies Set' series of Soviet film promos. In this piece Gerasimov can be seen in Norilsk on the set of his film "Town Planners". It's a story of two young architects struggling to build a new town in the Polar Regions. The film stars as the director of an Iron & Steel Works, Anatoly Solonitsyn as architect Kolmykov, as architect Arkhipova; and can be found as an extra on the 2003 DVD release of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1974 film The Mirror.[2]

In 1964 he was elected a Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[3]

He was honored with an Order of Lenin and the State Prize of the USSR in 1973.[4]

Research[]

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Innokenti Gerasimov was known as the specialist in conservation and changing the natural environment.

On the need of environmental protection, Innokentiy Gerasimov had spoken at a meeting of the Department of Earth Sciences, Soviet Academy of Sciences, on February 16, 1965. He has discussed the anthropogenic influence of paper industries on an ecosystem of Lake Baikal. In his report, there was an alarming warning about the increase of industrial and domestic wastewaters from 11 to 60 km3 per year for 20 years. Taking into account the need for dilution and subsequent self-cleaning of 5–10 times the amount of clean water meant a threat of an acute water crisis in especially important industrial regions of the country.[5]

Innokentiy Gerasimov was supporters of the idea of Soviet ecologist Stanislav Shwarts, that the industrial needs of the Soviet Union made impossible the total preservation of its natural environment. According to him the Natural Environment should be modified by humans to provide all people's needs and the nature reserves (zapovedniki) should keep untouched environment.[6]

Books and articles[]

  • Armand D., Gerasimov I., Preobrazhensky V. Prognostication and geographical science // Geographical prognostication: problems and prospects. Moscow, 1986. Pp. 23–30.
  • Gerasimov I.P., Gindin A.M. The problem of transferring runoff from Northern and Siberian rivers to the arid regions of the European USSR, Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan // Environmental effects of complex river development. Boulder, 1977. P. 59-70.
  • Gerasimov I. P. A Soviet plan for nature // Natural History. 1969. Vol. 78. N 10. P. 24-35.
  • Структурные черты рельефа земной поверхности на территории СССР и их происхождение, М., 1959;
  • Преобразование природы и развитие географической науки в СССР, М., 1967.

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References[]

  1. ^ "soilscience.ru". soilscience.ru. Archived from the original on June 2, 2007.
  2. ^ "Not Available - Filmbug". www.filmbug.com.
  3. ^ "List of Members". www.leopoldina.org.
  4. ^ "Innokenti Gerasimov, Top Soviet Geographer". Chicago Tribune. 5 April 1985. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
  5. ^ Sobisevich A. ., Snytko V.A. Some aspects of nature protection in the scientific heritage of academician Innokentiy Gerasimov // Acta Geographica Silesiana. 2018. Vol. 29. # 1. P. 55–60.
  6. ^ Alexey Sobisevich "Scaling the Black Earth. Nature Preservation in the Soviet Union". Presentation at the workshop ‘Playing with Scales’ in Environmental History. (Tubingen University, 11–12 April 2018)
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