Background
KRISHTOFOVICH, Afrikan was born on November 8, 1885 in village Krishtopovka, Yekaterinoslav Province.
KRISHTOFOVICH, Afrikan was born on November 8, 1885 in village Krishtopovka, Yekaterinoslav Province.
1908 graduate Novorossiysk University, Odessa.
From 1908 associate, Novorossiysk University. From 1914 member, Russian Geological Committee. From 1924 associate. Main Botanical Garden, Leningrad (now V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences).
Studied the paleobotany of the Tertiary, Mesozoic and Paleozoic deposits of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Northern China, of Korea and Japan. Also did major research on the geology and stratigraphy of carboniferous Tertiary' and Mesozoic deposits in Northeast Asia. Established the zonal distribution of vegetation in past geological epochs and refuted the theory that the earth had a uniform climate in the Carboniferous.
Also studied plant evolution.
Member, Ukraine Academy of Sciences from 1945. Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1953.