Saratov State University

This article presents information about a forthcoming memorial collection dedicated to the memory of the outstanding geologist, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Professor at Saratov State University – Yakov Andreevich Richter (1931–2021). The collection contains biographical and archival information, photographs, selected publications by Ya. A. Richter, as well as recollections of his colleagues and students.

The article is devoted to meteorologists – Saratov State University staff of the Faculty of Geography, who took part in the meteorological support of the front during the Great Patriotic War.