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      🖼 Dokuchaev Central Soil Science Museum

      Санкт-Петербург, Биржевой проезд, 6

      The world's oldest soil museum: soil monoliths from every continent and the underground exhibition "Underground Kingdom".

      Dokuchaev Central Soil Science Museum
      © Екатерина Борисова · CC BY-SA 3.0
      • Dokuchaev voiced the idea of a soil museum in 1879, lamenting that Russia did not even have an incomplete collection of soils.
      • The museum at the Free Economic Society was established in 1902 and opened in 1904; the first curator was Pavel Ototsky.
      • The collection of monoliths has been gathered since 1902 — it includes soils from the Arctic to New Zealand.
      • The 1924 flood destroyed or damaged a third of the collections stored in the basement.
      • In 1941 the curator Gennady Boch, together with an elderly doorman, boarded up the museum's huge windows with shields.
      • The museum received its premises at Birzhevoy Proyezd 6 in 1950.

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