Alexander Kruber

Alexander Alexandrovich Kruber (Russian: Александр Александрович Крубер; August 22 [O.S.

[1] He became chairman of the Geography Department of the Moscow University in 1919, succeeding Dmitry Anuchin in the post.

[1] Then Kruber served as the director of the Scientific Research Institute of Geography during 1923-1927.

He studied karst structures of the East European Plain, Crimea, and Caucasus.

A mountain ridge on the Iturup Island (Kruber Ridge), a karst cavity in the Qarabiy yayla plateau,[2] Crimea, and a karst cave in Georgia (Krubera Cave) are named after him.