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V.V. Dokuchaev Central Museum of Soil was founded in 1902 atSaint Petersburg byVasilli Vasil'evich Dokuchaev (1846–1903). Commonly regarded as the father ofSoil science, Dokuchaev started his extensive collection of soil samples in 1880. The first museum of soil sciences in the world, V.V. Dokuchaev CentralPedological Museum, opened in 1904, a year after his death.[1]
Some of the samples were collected as early as in 1902. Also, thesoil monoliths for this collection were brought from around the world, from the Arctic to New Zealand. There are about 330 soil monoliths representing the global diversity of soils, with scientists' embarking on various expeditions to bring new monoliths every year.[2]
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