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Andrey Aleksandrovich Grigoryev (1883-1968) was a Soviet and Russian geographer and geomorphologist. He proposed the creation of the Department for the Industrial Geographical Study of Russia (DIGS) of the Commission for the Study of the Natural Productive Forces, which occurred in 1918.

Grigoryev graduated as a zoologist from the Department of Physics and Mathematics of St. Petersburg University in 1907.

References

1. ^ "АРАН. Фонд 1569". isaran.ru. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
2. Oldfield, jon. "Russian geography and the Commission for the Study of the Natural Productive Forces of Russia (KEPS), 1915-1930" (PDF). york.ac.uk. University of York. Retrieved 1 August 2020.

• 1883 births
• 1968 deaths
• People from Pushkin, Saint Petersburg
• Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University
• Recipients of the Stalin Prize
• Recipients of the Order of Lenin
• Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
• Russian geographers
• Soviet geographers
• Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery