Ask Our Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchayev
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Read Next
Encyclopaedia Britannica thistle graphic to be used with a Mendel/Consumer quiz in place of a photograph.
6 Paintings to See in St. Petersburg, Russia
Discover
Internet http://www blue screen. Hompepage blog 2009, history and society, media news television, crowd opinion protest, In the News 2009, breaking news
Who Invented the Internet?
Shadow of a man holding large knife in his hand inside of some dark, spooky buiding
7 of History's Most Notorious Serial Killers
Cathedrale St.Jean in Lyon, France has a 14th-century astronomical clock that shows religious feast days till the year 2019; Perpetual Calendar
Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar
Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.
7 Deadliest Weapons in History
Portrait of a mountain gorilla at a short distance. gorilla close up portrait.The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei)
Falling Stars: 10 of the Most Famous Endangered Species
Berries and leaves of the bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) plant. Poisonous plant
7 of the World’s Deadliest Plants
Aspirin pills.
7 Drugs that Changed the World

Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchayev: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Vasily-Vasilyevich-Dokuchayev
Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born March 1, 1846 • Russia
Died November 8, 1903 (aged 57) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Grove Karl Gilbert, 1891
Grove Karl Gilbert
American geologist
William Morris Davis
American geographer
Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, Freiherr von Richthofen
Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, baron von Richthofen
German geographer
Penck, Albrecht
Albrecht Penck
geographer
Curtis Fletcher Marbut
American geologist
Walther Penck
German geomorphologist
Siegfried Passarge
German geographer and geomorphologist
Eugene Vakhtangov
Russian actor, director, and producer
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev
Russian writer and scholar
Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin
Russian architect
Semyon Bychkov
Russian-American conductor
Third False Dmitry
Russian pretender
Anatoly Chubais
Russian economist and politician
Anna Politkovskaya
Russian journalist
Vladimir A. Kryuchkov
Soviet politician
Second False Dmitry
Russian pretender
Leonid Aleksandrovich Vesnin
Russian architect
Oleg Baklanov
Soviet politician
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Vesnin
Russian architect
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yakovlev
Soviet economist and official