Earth’s Cryosphere, 2022, Vol. XXVI, No. 1, p. 60-61

IN MEMORIAM. EDUARD VASILIEVICH SEVERSKII (May 5, 1940–October 9, 2021)

M.N. Zheleznyak, M.N. Grigoriev, A.N. Fedorov, R.V. Zhang, V.V. Shepelev, O.I. Alekseeva

Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Merzlotnaya str. 36, Yakutsk, 677010 Russia; o.i.alekseeva@mpi.ysn.ru

Eduard Vasilievich Severskii, Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in Agriculture, head of the Kazakhstan Alpine Permafrost Laboratory at the Melnikov Permafrost Institute, passed away on October 9, 2021. An eminent scholar and highly qualified permafrost researcher, Severskii devoted his career to the study and mapping of seasonally and perennially frozen ground and related phenomena in the high mountains of Central Asia. The fond memory of the remarkable scientist and person will remain in our hearts forever.

Eduard Vasilievich Severskii, Asian alpine permafrost