Andrei Dmitrievich Arkhangelsky

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Andrei Dmitrievich Arkhangelsky

Andrei Dmitrievich Archangelski ( Russian Андрей Дмитриевич Архангельский * 8. December 1879 in Ryazan , † 16th June 1940 in Uskoje in Moscow ) was a Russian-Soviet geologist and paleontologist , an eminent geoscientists Russia and the early Soviet Union and gained during his creative period great service in the exploration of his country.

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From 1889 to 1904 Archangelsky studied geology and palaeontology at the Lomonossow University in Moscow under Alexei Petrovich Pavlov , whose assistant he remained at the Geological Institute of Moscow University until 1913 after graduating. His main area of ​​responsibility during this time included mapping work in southeastern Russia to the center of Siberia. Appointed head of the Geological Committee in St. Petersburg in 1913 , he received his doctorate in mineralogy and geognosy in 1917 . While still in office as chief geologist of the Geological Committee in St. Petersburg, which he held until 1924, he was professor at various Russian universities, including Moscow University, from 1920.

Archangelskis main focus, in addition to his work as a university lecturer, was the exploration of mineral resources such as phosphorite and bauxite deposits in the Soviet Union, for which he organized several expeditions. As early as 1919, he successfully researched the Kursk magnetic anomaly , the results of which Iwan Gubkin could fall back on during his state-led exploration in 1920.

In 1925 he was elected a corresponding and in 1929 a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and was director of the Geological Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow from 1934 to 1939.

During his student days, Archangelsky was employed as a tutor in the household of Alexei Petrovich Pavlov from 1899 to 1900.

Honors

In 1928 Arkhangelsky was awarded the Lenin Prize. A crater on Mars and some nunataks (scree fields) in the Lasarew Mountains in Antarctica are named after Arkhangelsky.

Works

  • Arkhangelsky A .: Plan of the phosphorite deposits in Russia . (1920, Russian)
  • Archangelsky A .: Introduction to the study of the geology of European Russia . Part 1: Tectonics and development history of the Russian platform . (1923, Russian)
  • Arkhangelsky A .: Geological structure and geological history of the USSR (1932, Russian)
  • Arkhangelsky A .: The formation of the bauxites and the search for new deposits . (1937, Russian)

literature

Guntau, M. (Ed.): Biographies of important geoscientists of the Soviet Union . Publication series for geological sciences 14 (1979) pp. 133-143

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Krüger: Archangelskij, Andrej Dmitriewitsch , Lexicon of important natural scientists, 2007; Elsevier GmbH, pp. 51-52, Munich; ISBN 3-8274-1883-6
personal data
SURNAME Arkhangelsky, Andrei Dmitrievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arkhangelsky, Andrei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian geologist and paleontologist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Ryazan
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1940
Place of death Uskoye near Moscow