Vasily dokuchaev biography

(b. Milyukovo, Smolensk province, Russia, 1 March 1846; d. St. Petersburg, Russia, 8 November 1903)

natural science, soil science, geography.

Dokuchaev came from the family of a village priest. He received his elementary education at a church school in Vyazma and then studied at the Smolensk seminary.

In 1867 he graduated with distinction from the seminary and was accepted at the St. Petersburg Ecclesiastical Academy.

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In the same year, having decided not to become a priest, he left the academy and entered the physics and mathematics department of St. Petersburg University to study the natural sciences.

In 1871 Dokuchaev graduated from St. Petersburg University with a master’s degree. His dissertation was devoted to the study and description of the alluvial deposits of the Kachna River, on the upper reaches of the Volga, near his birthplace.

From that time Dokuchaev’s scientific activity was connected with St. Petersburg University, the Societ