OUTSTANDING GEOMORPHOLOGIST, TALENTED EDUCATOR AND COLLEAGUE DMITRY A. LILIENBERG: CONTRIBUTION TO GEOLOGIC-GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCE

Abstract

2015, October 20 marked 10 years since the death of D.A. Lilienberg – the classic of Soviet and Russian geomorphologic science. His range of interests included matters of structural geomorphology, neotectonics, contemporary movements and relief geodynamics, geomorphologic mapping of mostly mountainous regions of the USSR, Russia and other countries. The article is devoted primarily to the Cuban period of researches and recollections about D.A. Lilienberg wrote by his students, fellows and colleagues in Cuba, Mexico and Russia. Significant place in the work of D.A. Lilienberg was devoted to longstanding geomorphologic-geodynamic researches of Cuba: he made a substantial contribution and became a leading academic standing of geographical science in this country. He has formed the basis of the Cuban national geomorphologic school, contributed to foundation of tropical and structural geomorphology of Cuba, to contemporary relief endogeodynamics and to development of the geomorphology mapping methods; he was the author of geomorphologic maps (1:500000 scale) in two “National atlas of Cuba” (1970, 1983). Moreover, he layed the foundation of the contemporary vertical movements researches – for this purpose he initiated creation of the geodynamic field test site Santiago-deCuba. D.A. Lilienberg was a true-born educator and promoted the foundation of national geomorphologic schools in Cuba, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Bulgaria, Slovakia. Some of his Cuban students made PhD under his tenure in Moscow in the Institute of Geography of the USSR Academy of Science; at present they live and work in other countries – the USA, Mexico, Spain.