Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky (Russian: Александр Петрович Карпинский, trl.

[1] Karpinsky was born in Turyinskiye Rudniki, Perm Governorate (now Krasnoturyinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast), in the Ural Mountains, into a family of mining engineers.

He was invited to the Mining Institute, St. Petersburg in 1869 as an Assistant Professor, whilst also doing further studies and research.

[2] His main research was chiefly done in the Ural Mountains, and he completed the first geological map of European Russia.

He was able to preserve much scientific equipment and many invaluable records during the turmoil, and looting, of the Russian Revolution.