Official Positions
- Professor of the Tomsk Engineering Institute (1919–1921),
- Professor of the Taurida University in Simferopol (1918–1919),
- Professor of the Moscow Mining Academy (1921–1929);
- Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1929);
- Chairman of the Committee on Permafrost Studies (since 1930);
- Director of the Institute of Permafrost Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (since 1939);
- Secretary of the Department of Geological and Geographical Sciences of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1942–1946);
- Honorary president of the Soviet Geographical Society (since 1948)
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