Mikhail Sumgin

Mikhail Ivanovich Sumgin , pseudonym: Pasynkov , born 24 February 1873 in Nizhny Novgorod, died 8 December 1942 in Tashkent) was a Russian permafrost scientist, one of the organizers of the Permanent Commission for the Study of Permafrost (; КИВМ), and deputy director of the of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1956.

Early life and education

Mikhail Sumgin was born on 12 February 1873, in the village of in the Lukoyanovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. He was a Mordvinian of Erzya descent.

He attended a for three years, and then studied at Lukoyanovsky City School. He graduated in 1887, the same time as , who later became a renowned scientist as well and developed methods of determining the depth of rocks in permafrost.