Alexander Grigoryevich Vologdin

Alexander Grigorievich Wologdin ( Russian Александр Григорьевич Вологдин , English transcription Alexander Vologdin ; born February 28 ^{. Jul} / 11. March  1896 ^greg. In Roschdestwenskoje ( Perm province ); † 28. September 1971 in Moscow ) was a Russian geologist and paleontologist .

Vologdin was a well-known Russian paleontologist who dealt in particular with the geology of Siberia. In 1925 he graduated from the Leningrad Mining Institute and then worked on the Geological Committee of the Soviet Republics. In 1939 he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . From 1943 he was at the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1947 he received the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal for his studies on Cambrian and Pre-Cambrian algae and archaeocyatha . In addition, he dealt with stratigraphy, engineering geology, hydrogeology and deposits of usable minerals. He received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor .

He was indicted in the Krasnoyarsk geologists' trials in 1949 and sentenced in 1950 to 25 years of forced labor, which he served in the Kolyma region. He was part of a group of geologists who went to work in Magadan during the day and returned to camp at night. In 1954 he was fully rehabilitated again. In the trials, Siberian geologists were accused of having kept information about ore deposits (especially uranium) in Siberia secret. A total of 27 geologists were arrested.

Web links

• Entry in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, English translation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Laudation for the Walcott Prize
2. ↑ The Krasnoyarsk geologists processes ( Memento of 13 December 2012 at the Internet Archive ) ( English )
3. ^ Russian biography of Vologdin