Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchayev
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Read Next
Encyclopaedia Britannica thistle graphic to be used with a Mendel/Consumer quiz in place of a photograph.
6 Paintings to See in St. Petersburg, Russia
Discover
Middle East bee locator map
Are the Middle East and the Near East the Same Thing?
Salem Witch Trials. Photogravure after the painting by Walter McEwen titled - The Witches - circa 1890s.
How Rye Bread May Have Caused the Salem Witch Trials
Demystified - Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide? illustration
Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide?
Artist interpretation of space asteroids impacting earth and moon. Meteoroids, meteor impact, end of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Doomsday Predictions, comet
Major Mass Extinctions
Lake Mead (the impounded Colorado River) at the Hoover Dam. The light-coloured band of rock above the shoreline shows the decrease in water level in the first few years of the 21st century.
6 Lakes That Are Drying Up
Paul Revere. "The bloody massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.," engraved by Paul Revere. Boston Massacre.
There’s a Riot Goin’ On: Riots in U.S. History (Part One)
Close up of praying mantis walking on stone ground against a blurred background in Japan
6 Animals That Eat Their Mates

Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchayev: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Vasily-Vasilyevich-Dokuchayev

Facts

Born March 1, 1846 • Russia
Died November 8, 1903 (aged 57) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Grove Karl Gilbert, 1891
Grove Karl Gilbert
American geologist
William Morris Davis
American geographer
Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, Freiherr von Richthofen
Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, baron von Richthofen
German geographer
Penck, Albrecht
Albrecht Penck
geographer
Curtis Fletcher Marbut
American geologist
Walther Penck
German geomorphologist
Siegfried Passarge
German geographer and geomorphologist
Eugene Vakhtangov
Russian actor, director, and producer
Shamil Basayev
terrorist
Third False Dmitry
Russian pretender
Anatoly Chubais
Russian economist and politician
Vladimir A. Kryuchkov
Soviet politician
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Vesnin
Russian architect
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev
Russian writer and scholar
Anna Politkovskaya
Russian journalist
Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin
Russian architect
Semyon Bychkov
Russian-American conductor
Second False Dmitry
Russian pretender
Leonid Aleksandrovich Vesnin
Russian architect
Oleg Baklanov
Soviet politician