Mikhail Sumgin

Mikhail Sumgin

Mikhail Ivanovich Sumgin (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Сумги́н), 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 (постоянной Комиссии по изучению вечной мерзлоты; КИВМ), and deputy director of the Obruchev Institute of Permafrost Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union from 1939 to 1956.

Early life and education

Mikhail Sumgin was born on 12 February 1873, in the village of Krapivka in the Lukoyanovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. He was a Mordvinian of Erzya descent.

He attended a parish school for three years, and then studied at Lukoyanovsky City School. He graduated in 1887, the same time as Alexei Petrovsky, who later became a renowned scientist as well and developed methods of determining the depth of rocks in permafrost.

References

Works cited

• "Sumgin [Сумгин]". Russian Federal Ministry of Culture (in Russian). 2019. Archived from the original on 2023-06-08.

• Prokhorov, A. M., ed. (1969). "Сумгин Михаил Иванович" [Sumgin, Mikhail Ivanovich]. Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in 30 volumes) (in Russian) (3rd ed.). Moscow: Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya. OCLC 14476314.

• "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.