Department of Regional Economics and Geography. Department of Geography and Methods of Teaching Geography Kadek Matvei Georgievich

The formation of the Department of Geography began in 1919, when the Vyatka Institute of Public Education began training teachers in the natural-geographic cycle of disciplines. Then, as part of the department of schools of the 2nd stage, the department of geology and soil science was organized, which was headed by a prominent mineralogist Zemyatchensky Petr Andreevich- Professor of St. Petersburg University, student and associate of the outstanding scientist V.V. Dokuchaeva, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. This department functioned until 1941 under the guidance of prof. P.A. Zemyatchensky (1919-1921), Assoc. P.V. Smyslov (1921-1924), prof. S.L. Shcheklein (1924-1941).

In 1934, during the reform of the structure as part of the Vyatka Pedagogical Institute. IN AND. Lenin, the department of geography was formed as part of an independent geographical faculty, which was led by prof. V.A. Tanaevsky(1934-1937). In 1937 the department was divided into two independent structural units - physical and economic geography. The first one was headed Assoc. A.M. Kanonnikov(1938-1941), and the second Assoc. G.A. Bushmelev(1937-1941). In 1940-41. The departments of geography became part of the new faculty of natural geography, which arose on the basis of the merger of the faculties of natural science and geography.

With name Stepan Leontievich Shcheklein related to the long development of the Department of Physical Geography in the prewar period - from 1938 to 1941. - and in the post-war years - from 1945 to 1956. S. L. Shcheklein, professor, doctor of agricultural sciences, active researcher of soils in the Vyatka region. Since 1932, he studied erosion processes and developed measures to prevent them. Materials of soil erosion studies in the western, central and southern regions of the Kirov region formed the basis of his doctoral dissertation on the topic: "Soil erosion in the Kirov region and measures to combat it", defended in 1957 at the Soil Institute. V. V. Dokuchaev. He was the supervisor of the Ph.D. thesis of the teacher of the department M. A. Kuznitsyn on the patterns of the spread of ravine erosion in the agricultural landscapes of the Kirov region.

Further Heads of the Department of Physical Geography(from 2000 to 2015 - Department of Geography) were the following scientists-teachers: Assoc. F. S. Okhapkin (1956-1962), Assoc. D. D. Lavrov (1962-1974), Assoc. V. I. Kolchanov (1974-1979), Assoc. A. A. Scriabina (1979-1984), Assoc. N. N. Eremin (1984-1991), associate professor, later prof. A. M. Prokashev (1990-1994 and 2000-2015), prof. M. M. Pakhomov (1994-2000), Assoc. S. A. Pupysheva (since 2015).

Among the heads of the Department of Physical Geography was Nikolai Nikolaevich Eremin(1984-1991), candidate of technical sciences, participant and head of drifting scientific stations at the North Pole - SP-6, SP-19, head of the Antarctic station "Novolazarevskaya".

Each of the leaders and teachers made a significant contribution to the development of scientific, educational, educational work and the material and technical support of the department. Thanks to the initiative of the faculty at the department were created: specialized cabinet of cartography (associate professor D. D. Lavrov), geological museum (associate professors M. A. Kuznitsyn and V. I. Kolchanov), meteorological site (associate professor E. M. Isupova, senior teacher N. M. Petukhova ), a soil museum (prof. A. M. Prokashev), a summer training base in the village of Mysy, Lebyazhsky district and in the village of Chirki, Slobodsky district. Professors M. M. Pakhomov and A. M. Prokashev are the initiators of the creation of a scientific laboratory of landscape science and the evolution of natural environments, as well as scientific schools of evolutionary geography and soil science and soil genesis.

The first head of the department economic geography was Assoc. G. A. Bushmelev (1937-1941), In subsequent years, the department was headed by: Assoc. I. M. Khaikin (1945-1947), Assoc. A. K. Koshcheeva (1948-1949), Assoc. G. A. Bushmelev (1950-1961), Assoc. V. N. Tyurin (1961-1965), Assoc. S. S. Schneider (1965-1977), Assoc. R. V. Lebedeva (1977-1982), Assoc. D. D. Lavrov (1982-1985), Ph.D. M. M. Pakhomov (1985-1989), Assoc. G. A. Shirokov (1989-1992), Assoc. G. M. Alalykina (1993-1999), Assoc. M. G. Korolev (1999-2000).

During the years of existence of the Department of Economic Geography, in addition to those listed above, many experienced specialists worked at it: art. teacher E. I. Sokhin (1966-1984), ass. M. D. Sharygin (now Doctor of Geography, Head of the Department of Economic Geography of PSNIU), Assoc. G. V. Danyushenkova (1974-1999), Assoc. G. A. Russkikh, Art. teachers O. V. Maryina, I. Yu. Alalykina, T. V. Kazenina, E. V. Pestrikova and others.

In 2000, the departments of physical and economic geography were merged into the department of geography and methods of teaching geography, which until 2015 was headed by Prokashev A.M., doctor of agricultural sciences. sciences, professor.

In 1993, a postgraduate course in the direction of "Geomorphology and evolutionary geography" was opened at the Department of Geography under the guidance of d.g.s., prof. M. M. Pakhomov - one of the initiators of the paleogeographic study of the territory of the Vyatka-Kama region. Under his leadership, in 1996, the Research Laboratory for the Evolution of the Natural Environment was created (now merged with the laboratory of landscape science).

In 2007. on the basis of the Scientific Research Laboratory of Landscape Science and Soil Geography (now - Landscape Science and the Evolution of Natural Environments) a second postgraduate course was opened - in the direction of "Physical Geography, Biogeography, Soil Geography and Geochemistry of Landscapes", - headed by Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, prof. A. M. Prokashev.

The main direction of the laboratory work of prof. M. M. Pakhomova- Quaternary paleogeography, history of flora and vegetation, retrospective reconstruction of nature in connection with climate change in the Pleistocene. In this direction, a series of Ph.D. pollen analysis)" (O. M. Pakhomova, 2004), "Conditions for the formation of cover loams of the Vyatka-Kama loess province (according to palynological data)" (S. A. Pupysheva, 2004), "Stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Pleistocene-Quaternary deposits of the Vyatka-Kama Kama Cis-Urals (on the example of the Upper Kama Upland) ”(I. L. Borodaty, 2011). This made it possible to significantly expand our understanding of the history of the formation of landscapes in the Vyatka region in the late Pleistocene and Holocene.

For contribution to the development of fundamental science by the decision of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences M. M. Pakhomov was awarded the medal "For Contribution to the Development of Russian Science" (2008).

Scientific topics of the laboratory of landscape science and soil geography, led by prof. A. M. Prokashev, is focused on the study of the problems of spatial organization and geochemistry of landscapes, soils and the structure of the soil cover of the Vyatka-Kama Cis-Urals. In this laboratory, in recent years, teachers and graduate students have been working on studying the landscapes of specially protected natural areas of the Vyatka Prikamye, the genesis and evolution of soils with relict phenomena, the spatial organization and anthropogenic transformation of the soil cover, and the geochemistry of problematic surface deposits in this region. The result of their work was the defense of dissertations “Landscape geochemistry on cover loams of the Vyatka-Kama Cis-Urals” (E. A. Kolevatykh, 2011), “The structure of valley-outwash landscapes of the Medvedsky pine forest” (A. S. Matushkin, 2012) and the publication of a series of monographs, including the work “Genesis and evolution of the soil cover of the Vyatka and Kama basins”, awarded a diploma following the results of the regional competition of scientific works in 2010.

As part of the fundamental areas of research, teaching staff and graduate students of the department since the late 90s of the last century a number of grants funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Geographical Society, Vyatka State State University and other funds, for example: "The formation of the taiga forests of the Vyatka-Kama Cis-Urals in connection with climate change over the past 12,000 years" (RFBR, 1997), "The history of the vegetation of the Vyatka-Kama Cis-Urals in the Quaternary" (RFBR , 2000), "History of vegetation of the Vyatka region in the Quaternary" (RFBR, 2002), "Origin, evolution and pedogenic transformation of mantle loams of the Vyatka-Kama Cis-Urals" (RFBR, 2002), "Current state, anthropogenic transformation and evolution of landscapes plains and the Urals in the late Cenozoic” (RFBR, 2008), “Ecological and geographical studies of the projected national park “Atarskaya Luka” as the basis for the territorial organization and protection of landscapes” (RGS, 2013, 2014), etc.

Recently, a team of geographers has been purposefully working on the department-wide theme “ Nature, economy and geo-ecological state of the territory of the Kirov region". To solve scientific problems, employees, graduate students and students organize annual expeditionary research on the territory of the Vyatka region to collect new field experimental materials of landscape, paleo-soil, paleogeographic, geoecological, economic-geographical and other content.

In parallel with this teaching staff of the department, work is underway on didactics, theory and methods of teaching in higher and secondary schools.

The results of research in recent decades are reflected in a series of textbooks and manuals for universities and schools, monographic scientific works: "Nature, economy, ecology of the Kirov region" (1996), "Population and economy of the Kirov region" (1997), "Nature of the Kirov region" (1999), "Soils with a complex organic profile in the south of the Kirov region" (1999), "Guidelines for field diagnostics and environmental assessment of soils in the Kirov region (2000)," History of the soil and vegetation cover of the Vyatka-Kama region in the post-glacial "(2003)," Gray forest polygenetic soils of the Vyatka Prikamye" (2006), "Components of nature and evolution of landscapes of Northern Eurasia in the Cenozoic" (2009), "Genesis and evolution of the soil cover of the Vyatka and Kama basins" (2009), "Population and economy of the Kirov region" (2011 ), "Geochemistry of cover loams of the Vyatka-Kama Cis-Urals" (2012), "Valley-outland landscapes of Medvedsky Bor" (2013), "Economics of the region (territory, population and economy of the Kirov region" (2013), "Introduction in geography" (2015), "Atlas-book" Geography of the Kirov region "(2015), etc.

Every year, dozens of articles and materials of scientific conferences of various levels are published by teaching staff and graduate students, including publications indexed by the RSCI, HAC and Scopus by expert structures.

During the period from 2008 to 2015, the staff of the department also organized and held 5 scientific geographic conferences of the all-Russian and regional levels, including with the financial support of the RFBR. The annual participation of teachers, graduate students and students in scientific conferences of the All-Russian and other levels is traditional.

The staff of the Department of Geography pays great attention to helping teachers of geography by organizing annual scientific and methodological conferences, competitions, pedagogical platforms based on a number of rural schools, research projects and scientific and practical conferences with teachers and students on the topics: “Nature and Society”, “Name Green on the map of the Motherland.

In 2015, a graduate of the department, candidate of geographical sciences, associate professor Pupysheva Svetlana Anatolyevna was elected head of the department of geography.

An important milestone in the history of the department was the year 2016, when on the basis of the two leading universities in the region, the Core University of the Kirov region - Vyatka State University - was created. During the restructuring, the department again received the name "Geography and methods of teaching geography" (GIMOG).

The staff of the Department of Geography and MOG:

1. Pupysheva Svetlana Anatolyevna - Associate Professor, Candidate of Geological Sciences, Head. department;
2. Alalykina Iraida Yurievna - Associate Professor, Ph.D.;
3. Bearded Igor Leontyevich - Associate Professor, Candidate of Geology and Mathematics;
4. Zhuykova Irina Alexandrovna - Associate Professor, Ph.D.;
5. Matushkin Aleksey Sergeevich - Associate Professor, PhD;
6. Okhorzin Nikolai Dmitrievich - Associate Professor, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences;
7. Prokashev Aleksey Mikhailovich - Prof., Doctor of Agricultural Sciences;
8. Russkikh Galina Anatolyevna - Associate Professor, Ph.D.;
9. Vartan Igor Alexandrovich - Art. laboratory assistant;
10. Soboleva Elena Sergeevna - assistant;
11. Zubareva Rosa Navirovna - Art. laboratory assistant;
12. Potanina Olga Pavlovan - Art. laboratory assistant

The training of teachers (teachers) of geography, specialists, and now - bachelors and masters of geography has been carried out for many decades in Tverskoy(Kalinin) university. Recall the chronology of the development of the university: a private pedagogical school P.P. Maksimovich for the training of rural teachers (1870-1917) → Teachers' / Pedagogical Institute (June 1917-1936-1971) → State University (since 1971). All these years students studied geographical disciplines. Geography departments worked at the Pedagogical Institute and the University. The students were lectured by professors of Moscow University - A.A. Borzov. M.G. Kadek, scientists Pavlovsk geological school - A.P. Ivanov, V.A. Varsanofeva, N.Z. Milkovich.

Kadek Matvey Georgievich

Borzov Alexander Alexandrovich (29. 06. (10. 08) 1874 - 03/06/1939) - Russian Soviet physical geographer, geomorphologist, cartographer, methodologist, teacher. In 1922-1924 he taught geomorphology at the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute. One of the founders of the Faculty of Geology of Moscow State University. Founder of the university school of geomorphologists.

Kadek Matvei Georgievich (02/06/1897 - 11/11/1950) - professor, doctor of geographical sciences. In 1929-1931. was the rector of the Tver Pedagogical Institute. Read a course of economic geography. In 1931-1941. - Rector of Moscow State University. In 1934, he headed the geographical department of the soil-geographical faculty of Moscow State University. In 1936 he was the leader of the Kalinin Complex Expedition. In 1944-1949 he was the rector of the University of Latvia. Since 1947 - Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR.

Ivanov Alexey Pavlovich(1865 - 1933). Geologist. In 1919-1928. professor at Moscow University. The main works are devoted to the study of the central regions of the European part of Russia. Author of numerous works on mineral prospecting and paleontology. In 1918-1921. lectured on geology and mineralogy to students of the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute, was the first head. Department of Geology (1919-1921).

Varsanofyeva Vera Alexandrovna (10 (22). 07.1890 - 06.29.1976) Soviet geologist, geomorphologist. Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1935), Corresponding Member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR (1945), Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1950). The first woman to receive the degree of Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences

In 1922-1925. she headed the department of geology and taught a course of geology to students of the Tver Pedagogical Institute.

Milkovich Nikolai Zenonovich (born in 1880 in Rzhev, the exact date of death has not been established). Graduate of the natural department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Imperial Moscow University, scientist of the Pavlovsk Geological School. He taught at universities in Moscow. In the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute he headed the Department of Geology in 1926-1932. (replaced V.A. Varsanofiev), taught students a course in geology. During this period, N.Z. a series of educational (working) books on geology for schools and universities was written: "The Origin and Development of Animals and Man." M., 1926, "On the way to a scientific worldview." M., 1926, “The face of the earth and its changes. Moscow, 1926 and 1927, Life and History of the Earth. M., 1928, "Geology of the USSR in connection with its mineral resources." M., 1930, "Working book on natural science." M.L. 1930 (co-author Levchenko V.V.).

Savina Maria Fedorovna

Savina Maria Fedorovna (born in 1886 in Kyiv) - worked at the school of P.P. Maksimovich and the Tver / Kalinin Pedagogical Institute in 1919-1950. In 1921 she created a geological and mineralogical office and for many years was its head. In 1930-1933 before merging with the Department of Biology, she headed the Department of Geology and Mineralogy (the department was established in 1919). In 1936, when the Faculty of Geography was organized by M.F. Savina headed the Department of Geology (order dated June 1, 1936). The degree of Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences Maria Fedorovna received in 1938 without defending her dissertation (according to the totality of completed studies). December 30, 1943 - the united department of geography was created, and in 1945 the department of geology was separated from the department of physical geography. The department was again headed by Maria Fedorovna and headed the department of geology until her retirement in 1950. During numerous expeditions, Savina personally collected more than 4 thousand samples for the mineral collections of the geology office of the Pedagogical Institute, school geography classrooms and the Tver State Museum.

The Faculty of Geography is organized in 1935 G. as part of the teacher's institute(2-year training), in 1936 - at the Pedagogical Institute on the basis of the old departments - geography and geology of the former Faculty of Natural Sciences. This is one of 100 geofaculties created in the USSR to restore school geography. This subject was not studied at school from 1924 to 1934 - until a special government decree was adopted.

The first graduation of the geofaculty of the Kalinin State Pedagogical Institute named after V.I. M.I. Kalinina

The teaching staff of the Faculty of Geology was originally formed from Moscow teachers- well-known geographers. At the faculty, 2 departments continued their work: the department of geography (head of the department, Assoc. M. M. Bocharov) and the Department of Geology (Head of the Department, Assoc. M. F. Savina).

The classical structure of the geofaculty was determined in August 1938, when two specialized departments- physical and economic geography. During the Second World War, there was a united department of geography and a teacher's institute, and specialized departments reopened in 1945. The Faculty of Geography worked until 1952, then it was part of the united faculties and was again organized as an independent division of the university in 2002.

THE FIRST TEACHERS - THE FOUNDERS OF GEOPHAKA:

Department of Physical Geography since 1938(now the Department of Physical Geography and Ecology).

The first head of the department was Prof. Alexander Filippovich Belyakov (1938-1941 and 1943-1945). The first members of the department included Mikhail Mikhailovich Bocharov - the first dean of the Faculty of Geology, candidate of geographical sciences, graduate of Moscow State University.

Heads of the Department of Physical Geography and Ecology- famous geographers, doctors of geographical sciences, professors:

Orlov Boris Pavlovich (1892-1967). In the Leningrad period of his life, he was associated with the Russian Geographical Society, participated in expeditions to Wed. Asia. From 1933 until the end of his life he worked at Moscow University: at the soil-geographical, and since 1938 - at the geographical faculty of Moscow State University. In 1938-1951. headed the department of general physical geography, in 1940-1941 he was the dean of the faculty and director of the NIIG. In 1941 B.P. Orlov was appointed vice-rector of the university, from October 1941 until the end of 1942, he acted as rector of Moscow State University. He was the first vice-president of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR. In 1946-1947. headed the Department of Physical Geography of the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute, taught a course in physical geography of the USSR.

Samoilov Ivan Vasilievich(1899, St. Petersburg - 1963, Moscow) - Soviet hydrologist, doctor of geographical sciences (since 1952), professor of the geographical faculty of Moscow State University and the Moscow City Pedagogical Institute; honorary worker of the Navy (1946). He created a very productive doctrine of river mouths, in which the processes studied by potamology, oceanology and lake science are interconnected. In 1946-1953. taught a course in general physical geography at the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute, in 1947-1952. headed the Department of Physical Geography of the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute.

Haveman Alexander Vasilievich headed the department in 1953-1961. and 1967-1980, was the dean of the Faculty of Natural Geography. Alexander Vasilievich graduated from two higher educational institutions - the Forestry Institute and the Faculty of Geography of Leningrad University. Student A.E. Fersman. Alexander Evgenievich Fersman wrote the foreword and acted as the editor of his book “On an airplane with a camera / A. Gaveman; foreword A. Fersman. Moscow: Children's publishing house of the Komsomol Central Committee, 1941.

Being a member of many scientific expeditions, Gaveman A.V. traveled all over the country: the Arctic, Western and Eastern Siberia, Kamchatka. One of the first to use aerial photography in geographical research. Since 1948, Alexander Vasilievich began working at the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute as the head of the department of geography. Gaveman A.V. 120 printed works were written, including 18 books. The most famous is the monograph "Aerial Photography and the Study of Natural Resources" (AN USSR, 1937). Many of his works are devoted to the Kalinin region. The book "The Moscow Sea" went through several editions. In 1976, the famous scientist, Doctor of Geography, Professor Alexander Vasilievich Gaveman presented the Tver Library named after. Gorky 233 copies of books from his collection. All of them have dedicatory inscriptions. The collection contains literature of the most diverse subjects, reflecting the interests of the owner - geography, soil science, forestry, cartography, aerial photography, and the study of water bodies. A place of honor is occupied by the books of the author himself and his articles in various publications, as well as those where he acts as an editor. Gaveman A.G. created new areas of geographical research - aerial methods and the use of aerial photographs to study natural conditions and resources; ecological and geographical studies of reservoirs(Comprehensive study of reservoirs on the environment).

Shcherbakov Yuri Adrianovich

Shcherbakov Yuri Adrianovich - doctor of geographical sciences, professor. He headed the department in 1980-1990. A front-line soldier, after demobilization in 1946, he entered the Faculty of Geology of Moscow State University, then completed his postgraduate studies. He worked in various universities of the USSR. He came to Kalinin (Tver) from Perm and began working at the Kalinin (Tver) State University in 1974, was the dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, Biology and Geography, chairman of the Kalinin (Tver) branch of the Russian Geographical Society. Under his leadership, research on the impact of man on the natural complexes of the Tver region expanded. Yu. A. Shcherbakov was one of the founders environmental movement in the Upper Volga: conducted an active public activity to solve environmental problems related to the Kalinin nuclear power plant, the Rzhev hydroelectric complex, and the Seliger National Park. Yuri Adrianovich was the initiator and organizer of the public environmental review of the KNPP. Together with Yuri Adrianovich, his wife always worked - Nina Petrovna Shcherbakova (method of teaching geography).

Emelyanov Alexander Grigorievich - doctor of geographical sciences, professor. A.G. Emelyanov developed theoretical and methodological issues of complex physical-geographical and landscape-ecological forecasting. He worked at the Department of Physical Geography of the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute and the University of Tver from 1964 to 2016. (retired). His textbook "Fundamentals of nature management" (Emelyanov A.G. Fundamentals of nature management: a textbook for students of higher professional education / A.G. Emelyanov. - 8th ed., Sr. - M .: Publishing Center "Academy", 2013. - 256 pp. - (Ser. Baccalaureate)) is the main one in the preparation of students in the areas of bachelor's degree "Ecology and nature management", "Geography", "Land management and cadastres".

Tikhomirov Oleg Alekseevich - head. department from 1990 to the present, for many years he was the dean of the faculty. Continues to develop the subject of ecological and geographical studies of reservoirs. Within the framework of the geoecological direction of the department O.A. Tikhomirov formulated ideas about ecological geography as a scientific direction that studies the main patterns of formation of ecological and geographical situations of varying degrees of tension. Since 1994, the department was one of the first in Russia to start training geoecologists.

Now the department is preparing in the direction of "Ecology and nature management" (bachelor's and master's programs).

The composition of the Department of Physical Geography in 1978
(first row from left to right: L.K. Tikhomirova, N.S. Shirokova, N.V. Yarysh, A.V. Gaveman, Yu.A. Shcherbakov, E.O. Olli, Z.M. Sorokina. Second row from left to right: A. G. Emelyanov, O. A. Tikhomirov, L. S. Sopova, V. G. Kalmykova,
G.F. Zagorsky, A.A. Dorofeev)

At the Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, three main areas of ecological and geographical research have developed: 1) assessment, forecasting and mapping of the ecological state of terrestrial and water landscapes in the Upper Volga basin; Within this direction, professor A.G. Emelyanov theoretical and methodological issues of complex physical-geographical forecasting have been developed, the principles of landscape-ecological forecasting have been formulated, and regional forecast-information models of natural complexes have been built. 2) environmental and geographical expertise and assessment of the impact of large engineering structures on nature; 3) assessment of natural conditions for the purposes of recreation and tourism. Since the beginning of the 2000s, the main scientific direction of the Department of Physical Geography and Ecology has been "Landscape and ecological analysis of the state of natural-anthropogenic territorial and aquatic complexes." Within the framework of the scientific direction, the problems of regional nature management, monitoring and ecological and geographical assessment of the state of geosystems in the region are investigated.

The teaching staff of the department is being updated, including in connection with the reorganization of the faculty. They continue to work together with Tikhomirov O.A. (since 1971) Ph.D., associate professors Zherenkov A.G., Tsyganov A.A. and Muravyova L.V. (since the beginning of the 1980s), Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Markov M.V. (since the beginning of the 2000s) and candidate of biological sciences, associate professor Sorokin A.S. (former head of the department of ecology, has been working at the university since the 1970s).

Department of Economic Geography, since 1938 In 1943-1945 and 1961-1967. was part of the united department of geography. Now the department of socio-economic geography and territorial planning.

The first head of the department (in 1938-1941) was a prominent Soviet economic geographer, professor Chetyrkin Vladimir Mikhailovich (1892-1958). An active participant in the work of the State Planning Committee of the USSR on economic zoning in the 1920-1930s. He headed the departments of economic geography at the Moscow Planning Institute (1930-1935) and the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute (1933-1937). From 1937 he worked at the Research Institute of the Great Soviet World Atlas. In 1941-1948. department head and dean Tashkent University. In 1944 he defended his doctoral dissertation. From 1948 until the end of his life he headed the Department of Economic Geography Leningrad University. In the first staff of the department, together with V.M. Chetyrkin included a well-known political economist and international economist, professor, doctor of economic sciences Segal Yakov Evseevich (in 1937-1941 he was the dean of the Faculty of Geography) and a prominent cartographer, professor Selishchensky Mitrofan Ivanovich (188? -1944) - famous cartographer, author of the first Soviet economic maps (under the editorship of N.N. Baransky). A graduate of Moscow University, he taught at the 2nd Moscow State University together with N.N. Baransky, S.V. Bernstein-Kogan, V.M. Chetyrkin, A.A. Rybnikov and others - the first "real department of economic geography" (according to N.N. Baransky). Member of the editorial board of the first edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, headed the cartographic editorial board. In 1930 he was arrested and exiled to Tashkent, where he taught at the university. In 1936 he returned from exile, but he was allowed to live only in Tver. He taught at the Faculty of Geography of the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute (1938-1939). After the war he returned to Kryukovo (Moscow region). Died 1944

Secondary opening of the department happened at the end of the war, it was headed by Professor Semevsky Boris Nikolaevich (1945-1947), who arrived in Kalinin (Tver) in November 1943 as a teacher of military and political geography at the Academy of Logistics and Supply of the Red Army, transferred from Tashkent. In 1948, Semevsky was entrusted with the leadership of the Department of Economic Geography of the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute. A.I. Herzen. A teacher was sent to the Tver department from the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute. A.K. Herzen Ph.D. damn Leonid Georgievich, who in 1951 returned to Leningrad. For many years he taught at the Leningrad State University.

In 1958 Boris Nikolaevich Semevsky after the death of V.M. Chetyrkin headed the Department of Economic Geography of the Leningrad University.

Department of Economic Geography, Tver University for many years led:

Gusev Alexey Mikhailovich (1914-1994) - head. department in 1969-1984, candidate of military sciences, associate professor. Graduate of Moscow State Pedagogical Institute (2nd Moscow State University). The department, where Gusev A.M. studied, at that time was headed by Chetyrkin V.M.(1933-1937) and then - N.N. Baransky. In 1938-1941. taught economic and political geography at the Novo-Peterhof Military-Political School of the Border and Internal Troops of the NKVD of the USSR (New Peterhof, Leningrad Region). During the war, Alexei Mikhailovich was wounded on the Kalinin Front and after the hospital for aftercare was sent to Alma-Ata. There he was invited to the Academy of Logistics and Supply of the Red Army (Tashkent), where he completed residency and taught military geography (1942-1943). In 1943, together with Semevsky B.N. arrived in Kalinin. He taught military geography, first at the Academy of Logistics and Supply of the Red Army (1943-1956, Kalinin and 1956-1958, Leningrad), then at the Tver Air Defense Academy (1958-1968). Here is such a complex interconnected " chain” of the fates of students and teachers. Graduates of the wartime geofaculty told what "beauties" appeared at the institute and at the Saturday dances of the faculty, where the youth of the city gathered (the faculty was located in the central building - on Zhelyabova street).

Grechka Petr Vasilievich (1925-2001) - candidate of geographical sciences, associate professor, head. department in 1987-1993. Front-line soldier (participated in the battles for Poland). In 1952 he graduated from the Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institute. N.K. Krupskaya, in 1952-1955. - graduate school. In 1955 he was assigned to the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute (department of economic geography). In 1965-1967. Acting head of the united department of geography. Worked at the Department of Economic Geography until 1995 (retired).

Tkachenko Alexander Andreevich (1984-1987, 1993-2015) - doctor of geographical sciences, professor. Graduate of Moscow State University, student of Professor Sergey Alexandrovich Kovalev. The school of his teacher and his topics - resettlement and geography of service - continues to develop at the Tver department. Develops theoretical positions modern socio-economic geography: developed a systematic concept of the main aspects and laws (patterns) of the territorial organization of society.

Now the department is headed by Doctor of Geographical Sciences, Professor Bogdanov Lidia Petrovna (since 2016), graduate of Moscow State University. The main research topics are the geography of industry, sectoral research, issues of population reproduction, and the territorial organization of tourism.

Since the late 1970s in the preparation of the teaching staff, the department is focused on Moscow State University: almost all the leading teachers were trained in the postgraduate course of the department of social and economic geography of Russia. Currently, the Department of Socio-Economic Geography and Territorial Planning conducts scientific research in two areas: the theoretical foundations of the territorial organization of society, regional development and regional management; problems of socio-economic and spatial development of the Tver region.

The department is graduating in the direction of "Geography" (profile "Regional Development"). The department implements the master's program "Regional Policy and Territorial Planning". The department has a postgraduate course in the direction 05.06.01 Earth Sciences, direction 25.00.24 Economic, social, political and recreational geography.

Department of Tourism and Nature Management(organized in 2011).

Bogdanov Lidia Petrovna

First head. department - d.g.s., professor Lidia Petrovna Bogdanova (2011-2016). She developed the first educational programs for the new specialty. Now the department is headed by Candidate of Geographical Sciences, Associate Professor Elena Revoldovna Khokhlova (since 2016), graduate of TVGU and postgraduate student of Moscow State University.

The main research areas of the department: assessment of tourist and recreational resources of the Upper Volga region, scientific and methodological development of problematic issues of recreational geography, regional studies and tourism.

The main composition of the new department is teachers from other departments of the geofaculty. Among them are veterans - Ph.D. Dorofeev A.A. (works at the faculty since 1977), Doctor of Economics, Professor Yakovleva S.I. (works at the geofaculty since 1979).

In 1989-2011 the department worked cartography and geoecology (1989-2011). The original name was the Department of Cartography and Mathematical Geography. The heads of the department were Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Alexander Pavlovich Tishchenko (1989-2005) and Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Bolatbekova Kira Suleymanovna (2005-2011).

At the departments of the Faculty of Geography and Geoecology there are 6 doctors of sciences, professors, 17 candidates of sciences, associate professors, 1 senior lecturer, candidate of sciences, 11 senior teachers, 1 assistant. Postgraduate studies operate at the departments. Now the faculty has about 400 students. Admission of applicants is carried out both on a budgetary basis and on a paid basis.

Since 1946, the activities of the regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society (Chairman Tver regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society— Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Tver Region Belotserkovsky Andrei Vladlenovich ). Seminars dedicated to significant dates in the development of geography are regularly held, scientific reports are heard.

Students of the Faculty of Geology, as part of training practices and optionally, get acquainted with the cities and regions of Russia, near and far abroad. During the study, they manage to see and understand a lot. Graduates work in various structures related to environmental issues, cartography and land management, in the bodies of territorial administration, as well as in education. The teaching staff of the Faculty of Geology is regularly replenished with its graduates.

Heads of the Faculty of Geography and the combined faculties, which had the specialty "Geography"
	Faculty name	Dates	Deans	Years of work
	Faculty of Geography of the Pedagogical Institute		Bocharov Mikhail Mikhailovich
			Segal Yakov Evseevich
			Bocharov Mikhail Mikhailovich
	Faculty of Natural Geography of the Pedagogical Institute		Bocharov Mikhail Mikhailovich
			Sorokin Mikhail Georgievich
			Haveman Alexander Vasilievich
	Faculty of Chemistry and Biology of the University		Minyaev Vladimir Ivanovich
			Shcherbakov Yuri Adrianovich
			Tomashevsky Kim Evgenievich
			Tikhomirov Oleg Alekseevich
			Tomashevsky Kim Evgenievich
			females Mikhail Nikolaevich
	Faculty of Chemistry, Biology and Geography of the University
			Dementieva Svetlana Mikhailovna
	Faculty of Geography and Geoecology	with 2002 G.	Tikhomirov Oleg Alekseevich
			Khokhlova Elena Revoldovna	since 2007 to present

Prepared based on the materials of the article: Khokhlova E.R., Yakovleva S.I. Tver Geological Faculty is 80 years old. // Bulletin of the Tver State University. Series "Geography and geoecology". 2016. Issue 2. P.23-32. URL:

Dean - Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dobrolyubov Sergey Anatolyevich;
President - Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kasimov Nikolai Sergeevich.

Geography as a science has been developing at Moscow University for more than 200 years. A separate department of geography and ethnography was established in 1884 by the outstanding scientist and teacher D.N. Anuchin.

The Faculty of Geography of Moscow University was founded in 1938. Today it is the world's largest educational and scientific team of geographers. The structure of the faculty includes 15 departments and 8 research laboratories, 5 educational and scientific bases, 28 departmental laboratories, departments in the branches of Moscow State University in Sevastopol and Astana (Kazakhstan branch of Moscow State University). More than 800 students and 140 graduate students study at the faculty, 750 employees work, including one academician and three corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, honored scientists of the RSFSR and the Russian Federation, laureates of the State Prizes of the USSR and the Russian Federation, prizes of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of education, science and technology, Lomonosov Prize of Moscow State University for scientific work and pedagogical activity, Anuchinsky Prize, etc.

The faculty has four, where approximately 30% of all Russian dissertations in the field of environmental and geographical sciences are defended.

Candidate of Geographical Sciences, Associate Professor, Graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Law of the Peoples' Friendship University. Patrice Lumumba 1986 with a degree in economics and national economic planning; M.V. Lomonosov, since 1990 he has been working at the department.

Author of popular textbooks on economic geography, participant in educational and research projects on the development of education and the world economy in Russia, the USA, Poland; head of advanced training programs for teachers of geography; Member of the Editorial Board (since 2011) Misselenia Geographica – Regional Studies on Development, Warsaw University Journal, Poland (SCOPUS); member of the editorial board (since 2015) of the journal Geography at School (VAK), member of the Coordinating Council of the Association of Russian Social Geographers, full member of the Russian Geographical Society, expert of the Federal Register of Experts in the Scientific and Technical Sphere.

The Department of Regional Economics and Geography (until 2003 - the Department of Economic and Political Geography) was founded in 1960. For achievements in training and publications, she was awarded the medal of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences “Golden Department of Russia” (2006). Since 2010, the department has been participating in the preparation of masters of the interdisciplinary program in the direction of "Economics", specialization "Financial management in the sectors of the economy"; Since 2015, she has been implementing the interdisciplinary bachelor's profile "Economics of the city" in the direction of "Economics". The department closely cooperates with the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute for Reforming Public Finances, the Federal Antimonopoly Service, NPO Rekod, and signed cooperation agreements with leading universities in Poland, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Serbia.

Main directions of scientific research: regional shifts in the world commodity markets for industrial and agricultural products; spatial patterns of economic and political development; regional economy of Russia and foreign countries. There is a methodological seminar at the department (“Globalistics and geo-economic strategy”, head - international professor, doctor of geographic sciences I.A. Rodionova, scientific student club “Regional Economics” - head of associate professor of geographic sciences M.N. Mironova M.N.)

Scientific works of graduates of the department received about 30 medals and diplomas based on the results of participation in the All-Russian open competition for the best scientific work of students in natural, technical and human sciences in the section "Economic Sciences", "Geographical Sciences" of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the Russian Academy of Sciences; repeatedly won prizes in RUDN University competitions for scientific student work.

Given the importance of the spatial component in socio-economic development, the department provides the educational process at the economic, engineering, philological faculties, at the law, agrarian and technological institutes, the Institute of World Economy and Business, the Institute of International Programs.

Main disciplines: Economic geography, Political geography, Interstate territorial disputes, Regional economics, Environmental economics, Territorial marketing, Image of regions, Entrepreneurial climate of Russian regions, Geo-urban studies, City economics, Geographic information systems in the management of industries and territories, Spatial analysis in economics, Economics and finances of Russian regions.

The department has 14 teachers, incl. 3 professors, 9 associate professors, 2 assistants. 92% have the degree of Candidate (Doctor) of Sciences. The teachers of the department were trained and lectured at the leading universities of Russia and foreign countries - the University of Northern Kentucky (USA), the National University. Al-Farabi (Kazakhstan), Megatrend University (Serbia), Economic University in Katowice (Poland), etc. Among the teachers of the department are the authors of generally recognized school and university textbooks and educational and methodological complexes recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Kholina V.N. "Geography. Advanced level" (2014-2015, M.: Drofa), Kholina V.N. "Geography. Profile level (winner of the competition of the Ministry of Education and Science and the National Training Foundation in the nomination "Informatization of the education system", 2006-2008 Moscow: Bustard), I.A. Rodionova “Economic and social geography of the world” (2014-2015 – M.: YURRAIT, I.A. Rodionova “World economy: industrial sector” (2005, 2010), "Fundamentals of environmental economics" (2005), "Geography of human activity: economics, culture, politics" (1995-2002).