Background
DRAVERT, Pyotr was born on January 16, 1879 in Vyatka.
DRAVERT, Pyotr was born on January 16, 1879 in Vyatka.
1914 graduate Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Kazan’ University.
1905 twice exiled to Permanent’ Province and Yakutia for involvement in students’ movement. 1918-1940 assistant professor, then professor of mineralogy, gology and geophysics at higher educational establishments in Omsk, 1927-1945 chairman, Omsk Meteorite Commission. 1939-1945 member Meteorite Committee, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
Wrote verse depicting life of Yakuts, Zvenki and other Siberian peoples. His sci works included studies of meteorites and a catalog of bright bolids observed in Western Siberia.