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Mikhail Sumgin
Russian scientist, born 1873 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mikhail Ivanovich Sumgin (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Сумги́н), pseudonym: Pasynkov (Пасынков), born 24 February 1873[1] in Nizhny Novgorod, died 8 December 1942 in Tashkent)[2] was a Russian permafrost scientist, one of the organizers of the Permanent Commission for the Study of Permafrost (постоянной Комиссии по изучению вечной мерзлоты; КИВМ), and deputy director of the Obruchev Institute of Permafrost Studies (ru) of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1956.[1]
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Early life and education
Mikhail Sumgin was born on 12 February 1873, in the village of Krapivka (ru) in the Lukoyanovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. He was a Mordvinian of Erzya descent.[3]
He attended a parish school (ru) for three years, and then studied at Lukoyanovsky City School.[4] He graduated in 1887, the same time as Alexei Petrovsky (ru), who later became a renowned scientist as well and developed methods of determining the depth of rocks in permafrost.[5]
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