Boris F. Aparin

Teaching courses

  • For bachelor's degree: “Basic Soil Science”
  • For master's degree: “Methodology of modern Soil Science”; “Theory of the soil formation processes”
  • For graduate school: “Soil science paradigm - stages of development”; “Modern problems of soil science”

Position

Professor, Department of Soil Science & Soil Ecology, Dr.Sci. (Agricultural sciences)

E-mail: b.aparin@spbu.ru

Education, scientific degrees and titles

  • Graduated from Leningrad State University (now St. Petersburg State University), faculty of geography in 1969.
  •   Had phD degree in 1973.
  •   From 1992 to 2017 - Head of the Department of Soil Science and Soil Ecology of St. Petersburg State University.
  •   Since 2017 to the present time - Professor of the Department of Soil Science and Soil Ecology of St. Petersburg State University.

Research IDs


Research interests

Geography and Genesis of soils, classification of soils, protection and rational landuse, ecology, museology, popularization of science


Key publications

  1. Aparin B.F. Soil science: textbook for students of secondary vocational education institutions. 4th ed. - M.: Publishing Center "Academy", 2019. - 256 p.
  2. Aparin B.F. Basis of soil science, agriculture and agrochemistry: textbook for students of secondary vocational education institutions / B.F. Aparin. - M.: Publishing center "Academy", 2021. - 336 p.
  3. Aparin B.F., Sukhacheva E.Yu., Lazareva M.A. Soil diversity of the Leningrad region. - St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2021. - 183 p. ISBN 978-5-02-039743-9
  4. Aparin B. F., Sukhacheva E. Y. Evolution of soils and soil cover of reclaimed lands. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of St. Petersburg University, 2009. - 265 p.
  5. В. F. A parin, G. A. Kasatkina, N. N. M atinian, Е. U. Sukhacheva Red data soil book of the Leningrad region. St. Petersburg: Aeroplan, 2007. - 320 p.
  6. Aparin B.F. Geographical bases of rational use of soils (on binomial rocks). St. Petersburg: Nauka, 1992. - 190 p.
  7. Aparin B.F. The evolutionary model of fertility. St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg University Press, 1997.-292 p.

The Head of Current Research Fundings

  • Long-term soil and ecological monitoring of taiga and steppe natural zones

Awards and honors

  • 1980 - Diploma of the Ministry of agriculture of the USSR
  • 1996 - Gratitude of the Minister of culture of the Russian Federation
  • 1997 - State scientific scholarship of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • 2000 - Honorary diploma of the Minister of agriculture of the Russian Federation
  • 2008 - Diploma of the Russian agricultural Academy
  • 2009 - Honorary diploma of the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation
  • 2010 - Diploma of the University prize winner
  • 2012 - Honorary  diploma of the Russian Academy of agricultural Sciences
  • 2012 - Honorary member of the Society of soil scientists of Azerbaijan
  • 2014 - Title of "Academician of the Russian Public Environmental Academy"
  • 2015 - Honorary member of the Belarusian Society of soil scientists and agrochemists
  • 2015 - Diploma of the University prize winner
  • 2017 - the order of V.I.Vernadsky awarded by the V.I.Vernadsky non-Governmental environmental Foundation.


Other professional activities

  • Scientific supervisor of the V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute, Central Soil Museum By V.V. Dokuchaev - Branch of the Federal Research Centre V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute.

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