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February 17, 1846
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October 26, 1903
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Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchaev
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Modern soil science founder
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Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchaev was born on February 17, 1846, in Smolensk Oblast and died on October 26, 1903, in Saint Petersburg . Dokuchaev held citizenship in the Russian Empire and was educated at Saint Petersburg State University and Kharkiv National Agrarian University named after V. V. Dokuchaev .
Vasily Dokuchaev was a geologist , geographer , explorer , and scientist . He is widely acknowledged as the founder of modern soil science .
Throughout his career, Dokuchaev mentored several notable doctoral students, including Lev Berg , Vladimir Vernadsky , and Andrey Nikolaevich Krasnov, who was a botanist .
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