page_title: List of Russian Earth scientists
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hierarchical_section_title: List of Russian Earth scientists / Alphabetical list / B
caption_attribution_description: Jan Czerski (15 Mai 1845 - 25 June 1892) - a Polish geologist, paleontologist, traveller and explorer of Siberia.
context_page_description: This list of Russian Earth scientists includes the notable geographers, geologists, oceanographers, meteorologists, ecologists and other representatives of Earth sciences from the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia.
context_section_description: Karl Baer, naturalist, formulated the geological Baer's law on river erosion, co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society
  Valeri Barsukov, geologist
  Vladimir Belousov, geologist
  Lev Berg, determined the depth of Central Asian lakes, including Balkhash Lake and Issyk Kul, a head of the Soviet Geographical Society
  Yuri Bilibin, geologist, studied placer geology and organized expeditions that discovered gold deposits in Eastern Siberia
  Leonid Brekhovskikh, founder of modern acoustical oceanography, discovered the deep sound channel, the first to observe mesoscale ocean eddies
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