Andrey Aleksandrovich Grigoryev (1883-1968) was a Soviet and Russian geographer and

geomorphologist Geomorphology (from Ancient Greek: , ', "earth"; , ', "form"; and , ', "study") is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features created by physical, chemical or biological processes operating at or n ...

. He proposed the creation of the Department for the Industrial Geographical Study of Russia (DIGS) of the

Commission for the Study of the Natural Productive Forces The Commission for the Study of the Natural Productive Forces (Kommissiia po izucheniiu estestvennykh proizvoditel'nykh sil – KEPS) was established in Imperial Russia in 1915 to study the previously unexplored natural resources of the empire. Vlad ...

, which occurred in 1918. Grigoryev graduated as a zoologist from the Department of Physics and Mathematics of

St. Petersburg University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the ...

in 1907.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grigoryev, Andrey Aleksandrovich 1883 births 1968 deaths People from Pushkin, Saint Petersburg Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University Recipients of the Stalin Prize Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Russian geographers Soviet geographers Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery