Alexander Kruber

Alexander Alexandrovich Kruber (Russian: Александр Александрович Крубер; August 22 [O.S. August 8] 1871 – December 15, 1941) was a Russian and Soviet geographer and professor. He was the founder of Russian and Soviet karstology.^[1]

Alexander Kruber

Biography

Alexander Kruber was born in Istra (formerly Voskresensk), Russia. He graduated from the Moscow University in 1897. He published a textbook in 1917, General Earth Science.^[1] He became chairman of the Geography Department of the Moscow University in 1919, succeeding Dmitry Anuchin in the post.^[1] Anuchin was one of the Kruber's teachers at the Moscow University.^[1] Then Kruber served as the director of the Scientific Research Institute of Geography during 1923-1927. Since 1927 he could no longer work due to grave health problems.

He studied karst structures of the East European Plain, Crimea, and Caucasus.

A mountain ridge on the Iturup Island (Kruber Ridge), a karst cavity in the Qarabiy yayla plateau,^[2] Crimea, and a karst cave in Georgia (Krubera Cave) are named after him.

Books

• Гидрография карста, М., 1913
• Карстовая область горного Крыма, М., 1915
• Общее землеведение, 5 изд., ч. 1—3, М., 1938