The scientist Andrei Kapitsa died

Geographer Andrei Kapitsa died in Moscow at the 81st year of his life. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" by the brother of the deceased, physicist Sergei Kapitsa.

Andrei Kapitsa headed the department of rational nature management at the Geographical Department of Moscow State University, which was created in 1987, was a doctor of sciences, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1955-1964, he participated in four Soviet Antarctic expeditions, in 1967-1969 he led the expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences in East Africa. In addition, Kapitsa was the founder and first director of the Pacific Institute of Geography, as well as the dean of the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State University from 1965 to 1970.

"Andrei Petrovich was one of the authors of the largest geographical discovery in the twentieth century - the Underloid Lake East in Antarctica, as well as the subsequently confirmed hypothesis about the natural origin of the Antarctic ozone anomaly," said RIA Novosti, a researcher at the department of rational nature management named after Lomonosov Olga Gorshkova.

"At the department, he collected such a team in which everyone was engaged in work, enthusiastically, from morning to night, did not even arise conflicts. We lived very amicably and warmly treated each other. Andrei Petrovich was kind and wise with students. A good, fair person - he, of course, did not let hacks or a neglect of science, but was always ready to meet the problems of their (stewed - ed.) learning and even personal nature.