Berg L.S., (1876-1950), biologist and geographer

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BERG Lev Semenovich (1876-1950, Leningrad), geographer, biologist, Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1946). Graduated from Moscow University in 1898. In 1904-13, worked at the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. In 1914-16, lived in Moscow, returning to Petrograd in 1916. In the same year, Berg was appointed a professor of Petrograd University. He was one of the founders of the Geographic Institute (1918), which was reorganised into the Geographic Department of the Leningrad State University in 1925, acting as the chairman of the Physical Geography Department from 1925 until 1950. Headed the fossil fish laboratory of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences from 1934. Wrote works on climatology, geomorphology, ichthyology, and evolution theory (the so-called theory of nomogenesis). In 1940-50, he was President of the Geographic Society of the USSR. In 1951, he was awarded the Stalin Prize posthumously. In 1921-50, he lived at 2 Maklina Avenue (today Angliisky Avenue, memorial plaque installed). Buried at Literatorskie Mostky. A number of geographic locations have been named after Berg.

References: Золотницкая Р. Л. К биографии акад. Л. С. Берга // Изв. РГО. СПб., 1993. Т. 125, вып. 3. С. 83-87.

L. I. Yarukova. Berg Lev Semenovich
Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) Iosif Vissarionovich
Angliisky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
Золотницкая Р. Л. К биографии акад. Л. С. Берга // Изв. Рус. геогр. о-ва, 1993 Museum of Zoology
State University, St. Petersburg
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Geographical Society
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis