Biography
Владимир Обручев
Real name: Влади́мир Афана́сьевич О́бручев
Vladimir Obruchev (September 28 [October 10] 1863, Rzhev, Tver province - June 19, 1956, Moscow) - Russian and Soviet geologist, geologist, traveler, writer and popularizer of science. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929), Hero of Socialist Labor (1945), winner of two Stalin Prizes of the first degree (1941, 1950). The author of the term "neotectonics".