Unquestionably, Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko was one of the greatest climatologists in the Soviet Union and is the most respected in Russia today. He has received worldwide recognition for his work. Budyko was born in 1920, at a time of civil war and famine, in Gomel, Belarussia (now Belarus). Educated in the Soviet system, he received his Master of Science degree from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1942. Budyko was assigned immediately to Leningrad Main Geophysical Observatory as a researcher in 1942. During the German Army siege of the city he experienced the travails of the famine of 1941–43. Then in 1951, Budyko received his PhD from the Observatory, became Deputy Director in 1954, and advanced to Director in 1972.
A respected and highly qualified scientist, Budyko was dismissed from his director’s position in 1954 for not cooperating with the Communist Party’s Leningrad Committee. Eventually he was reinstated. His brilliant research and major scientific contributions enabled...
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Dando, W.A. (2005). Budyko, Mikhail Ivanovich (b. 1920). In: Oliver, J.E. (eds) Encyclopedia of World Climatology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3266-8_34
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