User:PyshnyPhilipp/Boris Borisovich Rodoman

Boris Borisovich Rodoman (29 May, 1931) - Soviet and Russian geographer. Layed the foundations of a new branch of theoretical geography, which reflects unique characteristics of USSR and Russia. Creator of a "polarised biosphere" conception. Made a big impact on recreational geography thought. Author of more than 555 science and non-fiction papers. A legend of a Russian geography.

Boris Rodoman was born in Moscow, in Arbat district.

His father was an theater actor and director. Mother worked on a sewing factory, and after Boris was born, she became a housewife. In his childhood, Boris traveled a lot with his parents. In the age of 13 he systematically gone round Moscow by tram. In 1941 he was evacuated from Moscow to Western Siberia. After the war returned to Moscow.

In 1955 Boris Rodoman graduated from Moscow State University, geography faculty, department of economic geography. During his studies his main topics of research are types of geographical description and zoning, which helped him to start to develop his therotical geography methods.

In 1955-1959 worked in State comittee for geographical literature publishing (Geographgiz). In 1959-1962 Boris Rodoman comleted his PhD at the depertment of physical geography, Moscow State Univercity. During his studies he took part in MSU Polar Ural and Dnepropetrovsk expiditions.

In 1965-1984 worked in laboratory of economical zoning (MSU), where he took up the development of recreational and tourism problems in USSR geographical thought.

In 1984 Boris Rodoman was fired from MSU. Since 1985 enviromental issues became his main field of study. In 1990 Rodoman obtained higer doctotal degree in Intitute for Geography of Russian Academy of Science. In this period of his science career, Boris Rodoman was actively inolved in scientific conferences, opinion journalism, non-fiction publications.