Soil research in Yakutia at the turn of the 20th–21st centuries

Abstract

The main patterns of soil cover development in Yakutia and the morphogenetic features of permafrost soils were identified in the first few years of the 20th century by researchers representing the scientific school of V.V. Dokuchaev. The soil scientists of the Complex Expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences between 1925 and 1930 significantly broadened the scope of soil-geographical research. The Yakut School of Soil Science emerged during the post war period. The works of Yakut scientists on the study of permafrost soils throughout the republic and soil maps of various scales have earned recognition from soil scientists of the Soviet Union. In the 1990s, the modern era of soil science development in Yakutia began on an international scale.