Abstract

April 18, 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding domestic economic geographer, Doctor of Geography, laureate of the USSR State Prize, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honorary Member of the Russian Geographical Society, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Professor Georgy Mikhailovich Lappo (1923–2020). Entering Moscow State University in 1947 as a part-time student, Georgy Mikhailovich graduated with honors and was recommended for full-time postgraduate studies. In the early 1960s returned to the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University to defend his Ph.D. thesis, and soon became an associate professor at the Department of Economic Geography of the USSR. Five and a half years later, he went to work at the Institute of Geography of the USSR Academy of Sciences, with which he was associated in the next half century. And while he did not lose professional and friendly contacts with university colleagues. On the basis of publications and archival materials, the connection of the scientist with the Department of Economic Geography of the USSR of the Faculty of Geography for many decades is shown.

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