Boris Ivanovich Boki

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Boris Ivanovich Boki ( Russian Борис Иванович Бокий ; born July 23 . Jul / 4. August  1873 greg. In Tbilisi ; † 13. March 1927 in Leningrad ) was a Russian mining scientists and university teachers .

Life

Boki's father Iwan Dmitrijewitsch Boki was a chemistry and physics teacher and a real state councilor (4th class ). Boki studied at the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with graduation in 1895. He then worked in the mines of the Donbas , where he introduced a new comprehensive development concept to improve coal mining . From 1906 he headed the chair for mining sciences at the St. Petersburg Mining Institute. In 1908 he was involved in the investigation of the disaster in one of the Jusowki mines in Donetsk , in which 274 people died. Boki proposed a first practical method for underground gasification . He wrote fundamental works on prospecting . In 1913 his practical course in mountain art was published . In 1914 he was appointed professor .

After the October Revolution in 1921, Boki became the responsible advisor to the new Ukrainian trusts Donugol in Donetsk for coal , Yugostal in Kharkov for steel and others. He also taught at the new Moscow Mining Academy . In 1924 a glass print edition of his Analytical Course in Mountain Art was published . The book was only published after his death.

Boki's younger brother was the NKVD commissioner Gleb Ivanovich Boki . Boki's son was the crystal chemist Georgi Borissowitsch Boki .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Большая российская энциклопедия: БО́КИЙ Борис Иванович (accessed October 19, 2018).
  2. Great Soviet Encyclopedia : Бокий Борис Иванович.
  3. a b c St. Petersburg Mining University: ИСТОРИЯ СОЗДАНИЯ (accessed October 19, 2018).
  4. Бокий, Б.И .: Практичний курс гірництва . Odessa 1931.
  5. Бокий, Б.И .: Аналитический курс горного искусства . Moscow, Leningrad 1929.