Editing List of Russian people (section)

===Earth scientists===
{{Main|Russian Earth scientists}}

*[[Maukhida Abdulkabirova]], geologist and metallurgist
*[[Karl Baer]], naturalist, formulated the geological [[Baer's law]] on [[river erosion]]
*[[Ivan Chersky]], geologist, explorer of [[Siberia]], explained the origin of [[Lake Baikal]], pioneered the [[geomorphological]] evolution theory
*[[Alexander Fersman]], a founder of [[geochemistry]], discovered [[copper]] in [[Monchegorsk]], [[apatite]]s in [[Khibiny Mountains|Khibiny]], [[sulfur]] in [[Central Asia]]
*[[Boris Borisovich Golitsyn|Boris Golitsyn]], inventor of [[electromagnetic field|electromagnetic]] [[seismograph]], the President of ''International Association of [[Seismology]]''
*[[Ivan Gubkin]], founder of the [[Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas]]
*[[Alexander Karpinsky]], geologist and mineralogist, the first President of the [[Soviet Academy of Sciences]]
*[[Vladimir Köppen]], [[meteorologist]], author of the commonly used [[Köppen climate classification]]
*[[Stepan Krasheninnikov]], geographer, the first Russian naturalist, made the first scientific description of [[Kamchatka]]
*[[Pyotr Shirshov]], polar explorer, founder of the [[Shirshov Institute of Oceanology]], proved that there is life in high latitudes of the Arctic Ocean
*[[Yuly Shokalsky]], first head of the [[Soviet Geographical Society]], coined the term ''[[World Ocean]]''
*[[Vladimir Vernadsky]], philosopher, geologist, a founder of [[geochemistry]], [[biogeochemistry]] and [[radiogeology]], creator of [[noosphere]] theory, popularized the term ''[[biosphere]]''