About Aleksandr Popov
Lived 1913 – 1993 (aged 79). Aleksandr Popov was a Russian geographer, physicist and university teacher.
Aleksandr Iosifovich Popov (; 7 June 1913 in Dorpat, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire – 23 April 1993 in Moscow, Russia) Popov was a member of the International Commission on Periglacial Morphology of the International Geographical Union. He organized and led numerous expeditions to investigate permafrost and deep seasonal freezing in the Soviet Union. Popov edited the geocryological map of the Soviet Union that was published in 1986.
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Who was Aleksandr Popov?
Russian geologist and geographer (1913-1993)
When was Aleksandr Popov born?
Aleksandr Popov was born on 7 June 1913 in Livonia Governorate, Tartu.
When did Aleksandr Popov die?
Aleksandr Popov died on 23 April 1993 in Moscow.
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Aleksandr Popov was a geographer, physicist and university teacher.
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Aleksandr Popov was Russian.
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