Background
Kapitsa, Andrei Petrovich was born on July 9, 1931 in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Arrived in Russia, 1935. Son of Petr Leonidovich and Anna Alekseevna (Krilova) Kapitsa.
Kapitsa, Andrei Petrovich was born on July 9, 1931 in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Arrived in Russia, 1935. Son of Petr Leonidovich and Anna Alekseevna (Krilova) Kapitsa.
Graduate, Moscow State University, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy in Geographical Sciences, Moscow State University, 1964.
Research scientist geography faculty Moscow State University, 1953-1964, dean, 1964-1970, professor emeritus, since 1998, head department environmental management since 1978. President Far Eastern Science Center Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 1970-1978. Participant and leader Antarctic traverse parties, 1955-1964.
Leader Soviet East-African Geophysical Expeditions, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, 1967-1969. Founder, director Pacific Institute Geography, Vladivostok, 1972-1978. Member presidium Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences, 1970-1980, deputy secretary general, 1980-1992.
Author: Dynamics and Morphology of the Ice Cover of the Central Part of Eastern Antarctica, 1961, Subglacial Topography of Antarctica, 1972. Co-author: Atlas of Antarctica, 1966 (state Award of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics 1972), Geographical and Geological Research in the East African Rift Valley, 1976, Relief of the Earth, 1975, Geographical and Analytical Forecast of the Territory of Administrative Regions, 1984. Editor: Geography of the World Ocean: North and South Polar Oceans, 1985, Cosmical Methods of Studying Nature, 1990.
Contributor articles to professional journals.
There is no solid or tangible evidence for God nor a logical argument for God. The existence of God is taken on faith and not by evidence.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Deputy Supreme Soviet of Russian Republic, Moscow, 1972-1980. Member Russian Academy of Sciences, International Foundation Human Ecology (president since 1995).
Married Evgenia Aleksandrovna Preisfreind, June 22, 1952 (deceased 1990). Children: Anna, Nadezhda. Married Mlada Alekseevna Kalashnikova, January 2, 1992.