Mikhail Sumgin

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Mikhail Ivanovich Sumgin (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Сумги́н), pseudonym: Pasynkov (Пасынков), born 24 February 1873^[1] in Nizhny Novgorod, died 8 December 1942 in Tashkent)^[2] 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.^[1]

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.^[3]

He attended a parish school ^[ru] for three years, and then studied at Lukoyanovsky City School.^[4] 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.^[5]

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• "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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