Abstract:
The paper highlights the most important personalities in the field of geography who were
concerned with studying the natural and anthropic heritage of Bessarabia. The authors highlight
notorious personalities from the Russian geographical school of the 19th century as well as tops of
Romanian geography from the interwar period concerned with the study of natural and anthropic
resources within Bessarabia. A special place belongs to the post-war period of studying the geographical
heritage by elucidating the most important geographical scholars of academic and university profile.