Nicolae Frolov was a Romanian

Romania

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 geologist and agronomist from Bessarabia

Bessarabia

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. He was noted for his work in explicating the hydrology of Bessarabia and as director of the Chişinău National Museum.

Born in Corneşti

Corneşti, Ungheni

Corneşti is a commune in Ungheni district, in central Moldova, with a population of 2,038 at the 2004 census. It is composed of a single village, Corneşti....

, Ungheni

Raionul Ungheni

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, Bessarabia, he graduated from Chişinău Theological Seminary and then went to Estonia where in 1904 he graduated from the University of Dorpat

University of Tartu

The University of Tartu is a classical university in the city of Tartu, Estonia. University of Tartu is the national university of Estonia; it is the biggest and highest-ranked university in Estonia...

 (now Tartu). After which he taught at the universities of St, Petersburg

Saint Petersburg State University

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, Kiev

Kiev University

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 and Odessa

Odessa University

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. In 1921, he moved to Chişinău

Chisinau

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 and was appointed as director of the Chişinău Museum. He taught agronmy and agricultural economics at the university there until 1940, when he retired and moved to Romania. He died in Iaşi

Iasi

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On 1 August 1961, he was posthumously made a member of the Academy of Science of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic

Academy of Sciences of Moldova

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