Earth’s Cryosphere, 2017, Vol. XXI, No. 5, p. 101-104
FOTIEV SERGEY MICHAILOVICH (ON THE 90 TH ANNIVERSARY)
F.M. Rivkin
“Fundamentproject” OJSC, 1/1, Volokolamskoe rout., Moscow, 125080, Russia; f-rivkin@narod.ru
This article is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Sergey M. Fotiev, widely known as a prominent researcher in geocryology, teacher, and editor of the scientific journal. He rendered almost 60 years to studying the geocryological conditions of Eastern, Central and Western Siberia, and the Russian Far East, Chukotka, Yakutia and Transbaikal region. Sergey M. Fotiev authored 10 monographs, more than 100 scholarly articles and 12 published maps. Sergey M. Fotiev’s legacy left to the world science includes six PhD theses in geological-mineralogical sciences defended under his scientific supervision.
Scientist, geocryology, “the Kingdom of Ice”