Mykola Andrusov

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Mykola Andrusov (Ukrainian: Микола Іванович Андрусов, Mykola Ivanovych Andrusov, Russian: Николай Иванович Андрусов, Nikolay Ivanovich Andrusov) (1861- April 27, 1924) was a famous Russian geologist, stratigrapher, and palaeontologist of Ukrainian descent.

He was born in Odessa.

He was one of the founders of paleoecology. He was first to establish the significant presence of hydrogen sulphide in the depths of the Black Sea.

He emigrated to France in 1920 due to illness. In 1919 he learned about the death of his elder son, and suffered a stroke which resulted in paralysis of a leg and an arm. His relatives decided to move him to Paris, where he had an inheritance from his father-in-law. In 1922 he moved to Praha due to material difficulties, where he died in 1924.

His son Dmitro Andrusov became a notable geologist and a member of the Slovakian Academy of Sciences.