Dmitri Wassiljewitsch Naliwkin
Dmitri Wassiljewitsch Naliwkin ( Russian Дмитрий Васильевич Наливкин , English transcription Dmitriy Vasilievich Nalivkin ; born August 25, 1889 in Saint Petersburg ; † March 2, 1982 ) was a leading Soviet geologist and paleontologist.
Naliwkin was the son of a mining engineer and from 1907 attended the Mining Institute in Saint Petersburg, where he also taught from 1920. During this time he carried out research in the Caucasus and Central Asia and examined Devonian brachiopods in the Kyrgyz part of the Fergana Valley . The stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Devonian and Carboniferous of the Russian tablet , the Urals and Central Asia remained his main research interests. In 1915 he graduated and was commissioned by the Russian Geographical Society to lead an expedition to the Pamir Mountains , which resulted in a publication on its geology in 1925. From 1917 he worked for the Soviet Geological Commission, with which he stayed for sixty years and for which he mapped many parts of the USSR, dealing with stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleontology, also in connection with the exploration of deposits for ores, coal, Bauxite and petroleum. He made an index of geological maps of the USSR and neighboring countries. Central Asia remained one of his main areas of research, and he helped establish new academic institutions in Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan. On his initiative, an overarching stratigraphic committee was established in the Soviet Union in 1955. Nawlikin was the editor of several series of publications in this context.
In 1946 he received the Stalin Prize and four times the Order of Lenin . In 1957 he received the Lenin Prize (for completing the geological map of the USSR on a scale of 1: 2.5 million) and in 1961 the Leopold von Buch plaque .
In 1946 he became a full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences .
He was never a member of the Communist Party, but survived the political terror of the 1930s, possibly through his friendship with the high NkWD officer Gleb Ivanovich Bokij, while his sister Jelena Vasilyevna Cherkessova, a botanist, came to the Gulag and her husband, a paleontologist, was shot.
A Russian research ship is named after him. The same applies to the Skaly Nalivkina in Antarctica.
Works
- Petroleum from the soot. trans. by Edgar Scheitz. - Berlin: Wunderlich, 1954.
- Brief outline of the geology of the USSR Translated from the Russian. by Dipl.-Geol. H.-J. Teschke. - Berlin: Akad.-Verl., 1959.
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| SURNAME | Naliwkin, Dmitri Wassiljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Наливкин, Дмитрий Васильевич (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1982 |