Alexander Alexandrovich Kruber (August 22 1871 – December 15, 1941) was a Russian and Soviet geographer and professor. He was the founder of Russian and Soviet karstology.

Biography

Alexander Kruber was born in Istra (formerly Voskresensk), Russia. He graduated from the Moscow University in 1897. He published a textbook in 1917, General Earth Science. He became chairman of the Geography Department of the Moscow University in 1919, succeeding Dmitry Anuchin in the post. Anuchin was one of the Kruber's teachers at the Moscow University. Then Kruber served as the director of the Scientific Research Institute of Geography during 1923-1927. Since 1927 he could no longer work due to grave health problems. He studied karst structures of the East European Plain, Crimea, and Caucasus. A mountain ridge on the Iturup Island (Kruber Ridge), a karst cavity in the Qarabiy yayla plateau, Crimea, and a karst cave in Georgia (Krubera Cave) are named after him.

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