Maria Glazovskaya

Maria Alfredovna Glazovskaya (Russian: Мария Альфредовна Глазовская; 26 January 1912 – 20 November 2016) was a soil scientist, agrochemist-landshaftoved. Honorary Professor of Moscow State University, an honorary member of the Russian Geographical Society and the Dokuchaev Society of Soil Science, Professor Emeritus of the University of Warsaw and an honorary doctor of the University of Sofia. She was vice president of the All-Union Society of Soil Scientists, a correspondent member of the International Commission for the use of land and a member of the Advisory Committee of the FAO-UNESCO.

Biography

Born in St. Petersburg in the family physician. In 1929 she graduated from high school in Kolpino at Leningrad and entered the Leningrad Agricultural Institute, where a year later moved into the geological and soil-geographical faculty of Leningrad State University.

She graduated from the University in 1934, specialty Soil science and was left in graduate Geographic and Economic Research Institute.

In 1937 she defended her thesis for the degree of candidate of geographical sciences. After the defense worked as an assistant at the Department of Soil Geography Geography Faculty of Leningrad State University, and actively participated in the expedition of the Soil Institute Dokuchaev USSR.

From 1939 to 1952 she lived in Alma-Ata, in charge of the sector of soil genesis of the Institute of Soil Science of Kazakhstan, taught soil science and soil geography at the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute. In 1952 he moved to Moscow, where in the same year she defended her doctoral thesis on Inner Tien-Shan as a mountainous country in Central Asia. Since 1952 - Associate Professor, since 1954 - professor, in 1956-1959 - Head of the Department of Physical Geography of the USSR, in 1959-1987 - Head, and from 1987 to the present time assistant professor of the department of geochemistry landscape and geography Soil Geography Faculty of Moscow State University.

At Moscow University in the Faculty of Geography she created and for many years read lectures Fundamentals of Soil Science and Soil Geography, Soils of the World, Geochemistry of landscapes of the USSR, The geochemical features of micro-organisms, Geochemistry of natural and man-made landscapes of the USSR.

In December 2014 it was awarded in the category Legend Russian geographical society for outstanding achievements in the field of geographical sciences, education and upbringing of young people.

Sons of Maria Alfredovna Glazovskaya - corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences environmentalist Nikita Glazovskiy (1946-2005) and glaciologist Andrey Glazovskiy.

Awards

• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971)
• Order of the Badge of Honour (1961)
• Medal For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 (1945)
• Medal Veteran of Labour (1984)
• USSR State Prize (1987)
• Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1978)
• Honorary Professor of Moscow State University (1994)