Scientific ideas of pedologist-geographer V.M. Fridland, their origins and development (to the 100th anniversary)

V.M. Fridland (1919 – 1983) – distinguished Soviet pedologist-geographer and cartographer, graduated from Moscow State University, Doctor of geographical sciences, Professor, laureate of the Dokuchaev Prize of USSR Academy of Sciences. He developed the doctrine of the structure of soil cover. Editor-in-chief and author of Soil maps: RSFSR, scale 1 :2 500 000 (1988); Educational Soil Map of the World, scale 1 : 15 000 000 (1984). One of the first Russian soil researchers of humid and arid tropics and subtropics, author of the USSR soil classifications, and of a number of books on soils.