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Karl Baer , naturalist, formulated the geological Baer's law on river erosion , co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society Valeri Barsukov , geologistVladimir Belousov , geologistLev Berg , determined the depth of Central Asian lakes, including Balkhash Lake and Issyk Kul , a head of the Soviet Geographical Society Yuri Bilibin , geologist, studied placer geology and organized expeditions that discovered gold deposits in Eastern SiberiaMariya Borodayevskaya , geologistLeonid Brekhovskikh , founder of modern acoustical oceanography , discovered the deep sound channel , the first to observe mesoscale ocean eddies Chersky E
Raul–Yuri Ervier , geologist, organizer and head of wide-ranging geological explorations that discovered of the largest oil and gas fields in Western SiberiaK
Stanislav Kalesnik , geographer Alexander Karpinsky , geologist and mineralogist, the first President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences Alexander Keyserling , naturalist, a founder of Russian geologyMaria Klenova , a founder of marine geology , polar explorerWladimir Köppen , meteorologist and author of the commonly used Köppen climate classification Nikolai Korzhenevskiy , geographerStepan Krasheninnikov , geographer, the first Russian naturalist, made the first scientific description of Kamchatka Peter Kropotkin , geographerAlexander Kruber , founder of Russian karstology Nikolai Kudryavtsev , author of modern abiogenic theory for origin of petroleum , coordinated oil and gas exploration in Siberia Leonid Kulik , meteorite researcher, the first to study Tunguska event L
Dmitry Lachinov , meteorologist Vladimir Larin , geologistIrina Levshakova , paleontologist and geologistVictor Linetsky , geologistMikhail Lomonosov , polymath, suggested the organic origin of soil , peat , coal , petroleum and amber ; forerunner of the continental drift theory, pioneer researcher of atmospheric electricity Middendorf S
Farman Salmanov , discoverer of giant oil fields in West Siberia Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky , explorer of the Tian Shan Mountains , for 40 years the head of the Russian Geographical Society , prominent statistician and organiser of the first Russian Empire Census Nikolay Shatsky , made a comprehensive tectonic map of North Eurasia , introduced Riphean and Baikalian geological stages Pyotr Shirshov , polar explorer, founder of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology , proved that there is life in high latitudes of the Arctic Ocean Yuly Shokalsky , first head of the Soviet Geographical Society , coined the term "World Ocean "Sergey Smirnov , geologistBoris Sokolov , geologistKozma Spassky-Avtonomov , meteorologistZ
Sergey Zimov , geophysicist specialising in arctic and subarctic ecology, known for advocating the theory that human overhunting of large herbivores during the Pleistocene caused Siberia's grassland-steppe ecosystem to disappear, for raising awareness of the roles permafrost and thermokarst lakes play in the global carbon cycle, and for creating Pleistocene Park Yevdokim Zyablovskiy , geographer 
