Levan Maruashvili, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Levan Maruashvili

Georgian geographer

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1912

Place of Birth: Novocherkassk, Don Host Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 05-Dec-1992

Profession: geographer, mountaineer

Nationality: Georgia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Levan Iosifovich Maruashvili (Georgian: ????? ??????? ?? ??????????; born 25 October 1912, Novocherkassk, Russian Empire, — 5 December 1992, Tbilisi, Georgia) was a prominent Georgian geographer.
Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1954), professor (1965).
Honored Scientist of the Georgian SSR (1966) and Abkhaz ASSR.
Honorary member of the Russian Geographical Society (1985).
He introduced a new concept of karst-sphere into the science.
Krubera Cave, which is the world’s deepest known cave (2197 m), was discovered by the Georgian researchers in 1960 by the leadership of Professor Levan Maruashvili.