Boris Petrovich Ditmar

Background

Ditmar Boris Petrovich was born on February 04, 1878 in Moscow. His father Andrey Borisovich Ditmar was a geographer as well.

Education

In 1906 he graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Department of Moscow State University.

Career

In 1906-1918 Boris was the teacher of geography in the schools of Moscow, simultaneously he participated in the Murmansk expedition of the hydrographic department at the Naval Ministry, and also in the Olonets expedition to study the lakes of Petrozavodsk and Povenets Uyezds. In 1919-1930 Ditmar was the Professor of Meteorology at the Tver Institute of Public Education. In 1930-1934 he worked as Professor at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. Since 1934 Boris was the head of the Physical Geography Department at the Voronezh State Pedagogical Institute, since 1935 he was the professor of the geographical faculty at the Voronezh State University.

Ditmar carried out geomorphological investigations in the Central Chernozem Region. He was the Professor of State Pedagogical Institutes: since 1939 in the Crimea, since 1942 in Dagestan (Makhachkala city), since 1943 in Yaroslavl.

Works

• article

  • Geography of Erastosthenes

    1929

  • Geomorphological areas of the Voronezh and Tambov Regions

    1938

  • Geomorphological observations in the area of the Dono-Veduga-Devic watershed

    1939

Connections

Father:

Andrey Borisovich Ditmar