text: Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev (Russian: Влади́мир Афана́сьевич О́бручев) (StyleData, village of Klepenino, now in Rzhevsky District, Tver Oblast –June 19, 1956, Moscow) was a Russian geologist, geographer, explorer, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1929), Hero of Socialist Labor (1945), and honorary president of the Soviet Geographical Society (since 1947).