he graduated from the vyazimsky theological school, then the smolensk theological seminary, then he was sent at public expense. to the st. petersburg theological academy, after which dukuchaev entered the st. petersburg university, eventually receiving an excellent education, who is this pester? this is the only science with purely russian roots; there are no others like it. after graduating from st. petersburg university, dakuchaev remained within the walls of almamator as the custodian of the mineralogy collection, geology and minerals, what occupied him most at this time. when developing new methods for estimating the age of modern geological deposits, dachaev arose. interest in soil? there was no soil as such, he gave it the first definition that it was an independent natural historical body. there was an idea, well, a certain surface of the earth, a continuation of geology. in fact, this is not so, because the soil is inhabited by a huge number of living organisms, it is a bioskeletal body, it is not a geological body, it is a living body capable of... so to speak, itself somehow i