Global InformationInnokenti Gerasimov information
Innokenti Gerasimov | |
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 1978 | |
| Born | December 9, 1905 |
| Died | March 30, 1985 (aged 79) Moscow |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geography Pedology |
Innokenti Petrovich Gerasimov (Russian: Герасимов, Иннокентий Петрович; 9 December 1905, in Kostroma – 30 March 1985, in Moscow)[1][not specific enough to verify] was a Soviet geographer and pedologist, professor, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1953). He was a creator of "constructive geography" – a new scientific direction, which was focused on the problems of conservation and using nature. According to him, constructive geography was formed in the era of the scientific and technological revolution, when geographical science had more complicated tasks, which should cover activity of many branches of the economy and change of many components of nature and society in the territory of very extensive and various regions.
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