Lev Bondarev

Lev Georgievich Bondarev (Russian: Лев Георгиевич Бондарев; 12 August 1932, Smolensk – 5 November 2005, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian geographer, and Associate Professor at the Geographical Faculty of the Moscow State University. He was a specialist in Quaternary geology, geomorphology, paleogeography, and geoecology. His research covered a wide range of scientific topics, from the paleogeography of the Pleistocene and glaciology to the problem of the impact of human industrial activity on nature. He participated in numerous expeditions to the mountain regions of Central Asia. He was the author of more than 200 scientific articles and 15 monographs.

He defended the viewpoint about the existence of a higher historical water level and an outflow from Issyk-Kul lake, which differed from the views of I. P. Gerasimov and E. Ya. Rantsman. He was the first to conduct absolute dating using radiocarbon and geochemical methods for the Northern Tien Shan.