Igor Sergeyevich Gramberg

Igor Sergejewitsch Gramberg ( Russian Игорь Сергеевич Грамберг ; born June 15, 1922 in Petrograd , † October 19, 2002 in St. Petersburg ) was a Russian geologist .

Life

Gramberg's grandfather Heinrich Gramberg immigrated from Bavaria and was master gardener of the Mikhail Datsche of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolajewitsch at Peterhof- Haussee Palace. For his horticultural services he received the Great Silver Medal of the Vienna k.k. Horticultural Society and Hereditary Honorary Citizenship . Gramberg's father Sergei Henrichowitsch Gramberg was the youngest of seven children and was the only one to succeed his father. He studied at the Agricultural Academy and was on the front lines of the First World War , first as a volunteer and then as a Praporschtschik . Then he worked as an economist and died in the German-Soviet war during the Leningrad blockade . Gramberg's mother Yekaterina Ivanovna, born Eltekowa, came from the well-known Rybinsk merchant family Eltekow and had studied at the Muraschkinzew commercial school.

Gramberg attended ten- grade middle school with graduation in 1940 and then began studying at the Leningrad Institute for Cinema Engineers (LIKI) . In 1941, after the start of the German-Soviet War, Gramberg joined the student volunteer battalion. Then he served in the 666th Rifle Regiment of the 3rd Guards Division on the Northwest Front . He was involved in the fighting at Staraya Russa and Novgorod and was wounded twice. After the second serious wound and a long hospital treatment in Molotov , he worked in a geological collector's group from the summer of 1942. In 1943 he became a student at the Sverdlovsk Mining Institute . In 1945 he returned to Leningrad and now studied at the Leningrad Mining Institute . In 1947 he married his fellow student Sinaida Zinovievna Ronkina.

Gramberg graduated with honors in 1949 and was then employed by the Research Institute for Geology of the Arctic (NIIGA) founded in 1948 . As a group leader in the petroleum department , he was involved in field work in the Anabarski district in northern Siberia and on the Taimyr peninsula . In 1955 he received his doctorate with his dissertation on the stratigraphy and petrography of the Permian deposits in the Anabarsky Rajon and the adjacent territories of the northeastern part of Siberia as a candidate for geological-mineralogical sciences .

In 1955, Gramberg became head of the subdivision for the geology of oil and gas rays and carried out work in the Verkhoyan, Norilsk and Murmansk Rajons and in the Far East . In 1959 he became the head of the Oil and Gas Department at NIIGA. In 1971 he was with his dissertation on the paleogeography and Paläohydrochemie of northern Central Siberia in the late Paleozoic to the doctor of geological-mineralogical sciences doctorate.

In 1972 Gramberg became director of NIIGA and at the same time director general of the Sewmorgeo network of NIIGA and the various research and production expeditions. In 1979 he became a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR) . In 1981 the NIIGA was reorganized. It received new tasks and was now called the All- Union Research Institute for Geology and Natural Resources of the Ocean (WNIIOkeangeologija). In 1983 he received the State Prize of the USSR for his research in the field of oceanology . In 1987 he became a real member of the AN-SSSR. In 1995 he received the State Prize of the Russian Federation for exploring and developing the rich oil and gas deposits on the western Arctic shelf . He was a member of the UN Commission for the Ocean. In 2001 he was the winner of the Demidow Prize . In 2002 he received the Government of the Russian Federation Award for the creation of a relief map of the seabed of the seas in northern Russia.

Gramberg was buried in the Smolensk Cemetery in St. Petersburg. The WNIIOkeangeologija has been named Gramberg since 2003. In 2007 a guyot in the southeastern part of the Magellan deep-sea mountains in the North Pacific was given the name Gramberg.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Д.А.Додин, В.Л.Иванов , Т.К.Иванова: Игорь Сергеевич Грамберг - учёный и человек . ВНИИОкеангеология, St. Petersburg 2004, p. 446-459, 460-466, 479-487, 538-541 .
2. ↑ А.Э.Конторович : Выдающийся геолог и исследователь Арктики академик Игорь Сергеевич Грамберг . СО РАН, Novosibirsk 2009.
3. ↑ RAN: Грамберг Игорь Сергеевич (accessed January 26, 2017).
4. ↑ Marine Gazetteer Place Details (accessed on 26 January 2017).