Grigory Gamburtsev

Grigory Aleksandrovich Gamburtsev (; – June 28, 1955) was a Soviet seismologist and academician from Saint Petersburg, Russia who worked in the area of seismometry and earthquake prediction.

Life Gamburtsev was born on March 23, 1903, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He graduated from the Moscow State University in 1926. From 1938 onward, he worked at the Geophysical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, serving as its director from 1949 to 1955. In 1946, Gamburtsev became a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and in 1953 he became full member of the Academy. Gamburtsev developed a new design of seismographs and created their theory. He proposed a new method for the mineral exploration, so called correlation refraction method, He died on June 28, 1955, in Moscow.

Honors Gamburtsev received several government awards for his scientific work, including the USSR State Prize (1941), the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1945), and the Order of Lenin (1953). and named after him in the same year; Val Gamburtsev, an oil deposit in Nenets Autonomous Okrug, (part of Arkhangelsk Oblast), is also named for him.

The Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences was named after Grigory Alexandrovich Gamburtsev. It is part of the Russian Academy of Sciences institution “O. Yu. Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences.”