Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Kazanli

Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Kazanli ( Russian Дмитрий Николаевич Казанли ; * 1904 in St. Petersburg , † 1959 ) was a Russian physicist and geologist .

Life

Kasanli, son of the composer Nikolai Ivanovich Kazanli , joined the Red Army as a volunteer after the October Revolution in 1918 . After the Russian Civil War , he studied at the physics and mathematics faculty of Leningrad University , graduating in 1930. As a student, he worked in the Geological Committee (GeolKom) , which was founded in 1882 as the first geological research institute and which existed until 1930. There he rose from collector to squad leader. He participated as astronomer and Geodäsist at the first Kolyma expedition 1928-1929 part and also to the following expeditions to the Kolyma 1930-1933. Its astronomical location determinations were essential for the prospecting commands .

On July 22, 1938, Kazanli was arrested and sent to Magadan Prison, where he remained until November 12, 1941. He was released for lack of evidence, but was not allowed to stay in Magadan. He finally worked in Alma-Ata in the Geological Institute of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences and became a candidate for geological-mineralogical sciences . In 1958 he received the Lenin Prize for creating a forecast map for Kazakhstan . He also published popular science books on the structure of the earth's interior .

On December 25, 2003, a summit (63 ° 26'38.0 "N, 148 ° 11'12.1" E) in the Tscherski Mountains was named Kazanli.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Т.П.Смолина: РЕПРЕССИРОВАННЫЕ ГЕОЛОГИ: КАЗАНЛИ Дмитрий Николаевич (accessed June 16, 2017).
2. ↑ О ПРИСВОЕНИИ НАИМЕНОВАНИЙ ГЕОГРАФИЧЕСКИМ ОБЪЕКТАМ В МАГАДАНСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ (accessed June 16, 2017).