Background
ZONN, Sergey was born in 1906 in Vladikavkaz.
ZONN, Sergey was born in 1906 in Vladikavkaz.
1930 graduated Gorsk Agriculture Institute.
Specialist in geographical of soil and forest pedology. 1925-1930 at Gorsk Agriculture Institute and Dagestan Water Management Board. 1930-1940 at Leningrad Department, All-Union Research Institute of Fertilizers, Agrotechn. and Agropedology, then senior specialist, Head, Soil and Geography Expedition, and Head, Laboratory of Saline Soils, All-Union Institute of Phytoculture.
1940-1945 associate, Council for the Study of Production Resources, USSR Academy of Science. Member, espeditions to: 1925-1948 Northern Caucasus. 1933-1935 Selengi Basin, Buryat-Mongolia.
1933-1934 northern slopes of Crimean Mountains. 1935-1937 Central Asia. Compiled soil map of Northern Caucasus.
Classified agricultural reclamation districts of Terek Basin. Worked out classification for soils of USSR vineyards. Discovered new types of mountainforest soils.