i think that there are few people who do not know who dekuchaev is, the name dokuchaev is one of the bonds, as ours says. a native of a small village in the smolensk province , dakuchaev was supposed to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a priest; he graduated from the vyazim theological school, then from smolensk... then he was sent at public expense to the st. petersburg theological academy. after this, dukuchaev entered st. petersburg university, eventually receiving an excellent education. who is dokuchaev, first of all, of course, he is a great scientist, the founder of the ancient sciences, this is the only science with purely russian roots, there are no others like him, having graduated from st. petersburg university, dokuchaev remained within the walls of almamater as the custodian of the mineralogical collection, geology and minerals, what occupied him most at that time in the development of new methods for estimating age. the entire black earth strip of russia, the volga region, for a record short period, dakuchaev examined bessarabia, crimea, the caucasus, took a

forests were being barbarically cut down, the cause of the crop failures was the environmental crisis, dokuchaevroved this, he did the main thing, he created a whole system of cascades. developed the foundations and methods for compiling the first soil maps. only two maps have national significance, the geological and soil map of the russian federation and are not declassified. this is subsoil, this is wealth, understanding from the point of view of economics and geopolitics. our main wealth, well, not only... gas and not oil and gas at all, it is our land. vasily dakuchaev was the first, long before the emergence of modern environmental agenda and movement of the greens, said that nature conservation is the most important task of humanity. in soviet times , the so-called stalinist plan for the transformation of nature, launched in 1949, was also associated with the name of dakuchaev. about 20 million hectares of forest were planted then. 13,000 ponds were laid. in the end, this titanic work led to a consistently high grain harvest, which previously could only be dreamed of. nature is the best,