Mushketov was born 9 (21 New Style) January 1850 in the
Dango Cossack area of the
Don region and entered
Saint Petersburg University in 1867, but soon transferred to the
Mining Institute where he was a student of
A. P. Karpinsky, and graduated from there in 1872. Upon graduation in 1872 he began his "continuous, almost uninterrupted explorations of
Russia" Mushketov died of
pneumonia in St. Petersburg on 10 (23) January 1902. ==Works==