Korzhuev Prokofiev

(1.V.1916, der. Lomenka now Ugranskogo district of Smolensk region).
Graduated from Moscow State University (1941), hydrological fac-t VGMI Red Army (1943) and graduate of the Institute of Geography, USSR (1950). Member of the Great Patriotic War. He served in the Hydrometeorological Service of the Byelorussian Front. In 1945-1947 he. - Senior engineer in the hydrological regime of rivers of the Office of irrigation service Belarus. Since 1950, Mr.. the Institute of Geography, USSR Academy of Sciences (Fellow Ob expedition, the head of the Yakut of the Lena geomorphological division complex expedition in 1954. senior lecturer in geomorphology). Investigated pools Vitim, Olekma, Viljui, Aldan, Lower Tunguska, etc.. Author of more than 400 scientific papers. Develop the concept of morphological analysis, develops the theoretical problems of geomorphology and paleogeography, global and Pleistocene geomorphology and mountain building. Prize. With. Dezhneva Geographical Society of USSR (1979).

Vol.: Morphostructure and the relief of the earth's surface, 1974, Geomorphology of river valleys and water-power construction, 1977.

Lit.: Krasnopolsky, AV. Domestic Geographers (1917-1992). Bibliographical guide. - T. I. - St. Petersburg, 1993.