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In 1918 Educational Geographical Institute (future geographical faculty at Leningrad University) and the Department of Industrial and Geographical Study of Russia (future Institute of Geography) at the Academy of Sciences were created in Petrograd. This contributed to the development of a number of areas of geographical science, in particular, geomorphology. Educational Geographical Institute has trained many geographers; among them were such outstanding geographers as Innokentiy P. Gerasimov (1905-1985) and Konstantin K. Markov (1905-1980). In the 1920-50th their scientific activities contributed to the development of geomorphology, a scientific discipline about the study of the Earth's relief. In 1937 I. Gerasimov published the book “The main features of the development of the modern surface of Turan. The experience of a geomorphological monograph”, which had a significant contribution to geomorphology. In the 1950th I. Gerasimov made a great impact on structural geomorphology, when created the theory of morphostructures and morphosculptures. K. Markov contributed the paleogeographic direction in geomorphology when in 1935 he published the monograph "Development of the relief of the northwestern part of the Leningrad region". In 1939 I. Gerasimov and K. Markov published joint monographs "Ice Age on the Territory of the USSR" and "Quaternary Geology: Paleogeography of the Quaternary Period". Ideas of those scientists laid the historical direction in geomorphology and the comparative-geographical approach to the study of relief.