Ivan Vasil'evich Mushketov

Ivan Vasilʹevich Mushketov (; 1850–1902) was a famous geologist, tectonist, explorer, and geographer from the Russian Empire.

Biography

Mushketov was born 9 (21 New Style) January 1850 in the Dango Cossack area of the Don region and entered Saint Petersburg University in 1867, but soon transferred to the Mining Institute where he was a student of A. P. Karpinsky, and graduated from there in 1872.

Upon graduation in 1872 he began his "continuous, almost uninterrupted explorations of Russia"

Mushketov died of pneumonia in St. Petersburg on 10 (23) January 1902.

Works

Mineral Riches of Russian Turkestan (1878) Geological Map of Turkestan (with S.D. Romanovsky, 1884) Turkestan (1886, 1906) Physical Geology (1888, 1891) Geological Prospects Along Circumbaikal Line (1904, 1910)

Remembrance The Mushketov Glacier (Antarctica), Gora Mushketova (Antarctica) the Mushketov Glacier in the Tian Shan mountain range, and Gora Mushketova (Mushketov Mountain, the Mountain Peak of the Vitim Tableland, Buriyatia) are named after him. He was the father of D. I. Mushketov, who, like his father, specialized in the geology of Central Asia and studied both earthquakes and glaciation.