Russian Federation
The key role of St. Petersburg (Leningrad) State University in the development of soil science as a science is undoubted. The founders of the scientific school of soil science at St. Petersburg State University (LSU) are P. A. Zemyatchensky, V. V. Okhotin, N. I. Prokhorov. It was at Leningrad State University that for the first time in the country, admission to the specialty “Soil Science” was opened. The world's first textbook “Soil Science” was published at Leningrad State University (1933). Over the years of its existence, the Department of Soil Science (hereinafter referred to as soil science and engineering geology) has trained more than a dozen highly qualified certified specialists.
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