Outstanding Russian scientist Nikolai Ivanovich Andrusov (1861–1924) and his geomorphological works

Abstract

N.I. Andrusov was educated in Russia and Austria, worked at the University of Vienna, made a series of routes with Eduard Suess, communicated with G.V. Abich and Zittel; worked in Zagreb, in Italy – Venice, Bologna, Pisa, Milan, Karst; in Paris and Romania. In Russia. he worked at the universities of St. George's (Tartu), Petersburg, Odessa, Kiev and Simferopol. He conducted field research in the Crimea (valley of River Sudak, Kerch Peninsula), Taman, Trans-Caspian deserts – Kara-Bogaz-Gol, Mangyshlak, Ustyurt. In the years 1890 and 1891, he participated in two marine expeditions in the Black Sea. In the last years, N.I. Andrusov worked in the Geological Committee in St. Petersburg (1913–1918) and in the newly opened Tavrichesky University in Simferopol (1918–1920). Here, a cohort of glorious domestic scientists collected, such as V.I. Vernadsky – the Crimean University in Simferopol bears his name now, V.A. Obruchev, P.P. Sushkin, A.A. Baykov, V.I. Palladin, B.D. Grekov, G.N. Vysotsky, V.L. Ryzhkov, I.E. Tamm, A.F. Ioffe, Ya.I. Frenkel, R.I. Gelvit, E.V. Wulf, S.P. Popov, V.I. Luchitsky, N.I. Kuznetsov, D.I. Shcherbakov and others. Andrusov left detailed geomorphological descriptions of the Crimean peninsula and the west of Central Asia.