Mikhail Sumgin

Mikhail Ivanovich Sumgin (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Сумги́н), pseudonym: Pasynkov (Пасынков), born 24 February 1873 in Nizhny Novgorod, died 8 December 1942 in Tashkent) was a Russian permafrost scientist, one of the organizers of the Permanent Commission for the Study of Permafrost (постоянной Комиссии по изучению вечной мерзлоты; КИВМ), and deputy director of the Obruchev Institute of Permafrost Studies^[ru] of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1956.

Early life and education

Mikhail Sumgin was born on 12 February 1873, in the village of Krapivka^[ru] in the Lukoyanovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. He was a Mordvinian of Erzya descent.

He attended a parish school^[ru] for three years, and then studied at Lukoyanovsky City School. He graduated in 1887, the same time as Alexei Petrovsky^[ru], who later became a renowned scientist as well and developed methods of determining the depth of rocks in permafrost.

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"Sumgin [Сумгин]". Russian Federal Ministry of Culture (in Russian). 2019. Archived from the original on 2023-06-08.

Prokhorov, A. M., ed. (1969). "Сумгин Михаил Иванович" [Sumgin, Mikhail Ivanovich]. Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in 30 volumes) (in Russian) (3rd ed.). Moscow: Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya. OCLC 14476314.

"Петровский А. А.: Знаменитые лукояновцы" [Petrovsky A. A.: famous Lukoyanovite]. Lukoyanov Pedagogical College (lukped). 2007. Archived from the original on 2022-01-03. Retrieved 22 July 2025.

Mokshin, Mokshin Nikolai (2018). "М. И. Сумгин - Российский общественно-политический деятель и ученый" [M. I. Sumgin - Russian public and political figure and scientist]. Социально-политические науки [Sociopolitical sciences] (2 ed.). CyberLeninka: 326–330. ISSN 2223-0092. Archived from the original on 2022-01-18. Retrieved 22 July 2025.

Zaraeva, N. I. (18 February 2013). "Сумгин Михаил Иванович (24.2.1873 – 8.12.1942 г.)" [Mikhail Ivanovich Sumgin (February 24, 1873 – December 8, 1942)]. Mordovian Republican United Local History Museum (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2017-03-13.

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