Mikhail Sumgin

Summary

Mikhail Ivanovich Sumgin, 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, and deputy director of the Obruchev Institute of Permafrost Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1956.