Earth’s Cryosphere, 2025, Vol. XXIX, No. 1, p. 65-67.

CHRONICLE

ON THE 90th ANNIVERSARY OF IGOR VLADIMIROVICH KLIMOVSKY

M.N. Zheleznyak, V.V. Shepelev, O.I. Alekseeva*

Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Merzlotnaya St. 36, Yakutsk, 677010 Russia
*Corresponding author; e-mail: o.i.alekseeva@mpi.ysn.ru

On August 19, 2024, Igor Vladimirovich Klimovsky, a famous Russian permafrost scientist, leading researcher at the Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a Candidate of Geographical Sciences, and author of major monographs and maps on permafrost, as well as historical and biographical books about permafrost researchers, celebrated his 90th birthday.

Keywords: permafrost, geocryology, natural processes and phenomena, expeditionary research, permafrost researcher.


Recommended citation: Zheleznyak M.N., Shepelev V.V., Alekseeva O.I., 2025. On the 90th anniversary of Igor Vladimirovich Klimovsky. Earth’s Cryosphere XXIX (1), 65–67.


Received December 10, 2024
Translated by A.V. Muravyev