Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Matwejew

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Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Matwejew ( Russian Константин Константинович Матвеев ; * February 21 July / March 5,  1875 greg. In Kamyshov ; † December 21, 1954 in Sverdlovsk ) was a Russian geologist , mineralogist and university teacher .

Life

Mastwejew, son of a teacher, studied at the Orenburg Teachers Institute with graduation in 1895. He then headed the elementary school of Motowilichinski Rajons in Perm until 1901. He then continued to study at the University of St. Petersburg until 1907. He was an employee of the geophysical expedition on the Abşeron Peninsula on the Caspian Sea (1908–1909) and the geological expeditions in the western pre- Urals (1909–1910) and in Transbaikalia (1914–1917). From 1913 to 1918 he worked in the Radium Commission ofImperial Academy of Sciences . He was a member of the Ural Society of Friends of Nature.

After the October Revolution , he and others founded the Sverdlovsk Mountain Institute and taught there. He was rector until October 1919, Professor (1919), was dean of the Faculty for geological exploration and Head of Mineralogy - Chair .

Matveev examined the deposits of radioactive ores and monazite in Transbaikalia, the titanium ores in the Urals and the gold deposits at Shitiqara and Plast . He developed the tungsten deposit in Nagaibakski Rajon near Magnitogorsk and the Jelisavetinski cobalt deposit near Sverdlovsk. He was one of the founders of the Urals School of Mineralogists and Geochemists , the Ural Geological Museum in Sverdlovsk (1937) and the Ural Geological Society.

Matveev was the chairman of the Commission for the Protection of Scientific, Cultural and Artistic Values. He founded the Urals Department of the All-Russian Mineralogical Society and was its first chairman. He was a member of the Organizing Committee of the Ural University in Sverdlovsk. He headed the Workers' Commission in the Ural Oblast Planning Bureau for the problem of gem materials and industries. He was a bearer of the Order of Lenin .

Matveev was married to the noble Ksenija Mikhailovna née Lyowschina, first head of the chair of foreign languages ​​at the Sverdlovsk Mountain Institute. Her son was the linguist Alexander Konstantinowitsch Matwejew , her grandson the writer Andrei Alexandrowitsch Matwejew and her granddaughter the writer Anna Alexandrowna Matwejewa .

The mineral Matveevit , discovered by Boris Walentinowitsch Tschesnokow in the Ilmen Nature Reserve in 1986, was named after Matveev .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 05.03.1875 ДЕНЬ РОЖДЕНИЯ КОНСТАНТИНА КОНСТАНТИНОВИЧА МАТВЕЕВА (accessed on 21 April 2018).
  2. ↑ Емлин Э. Ф .: Константин Константинович Матвеев - минералог, геохимик, общественный деятель . In: Уральская минералогия . 1988, p. 3-34 .
  3. ↑ Гумбейская группа месторождений (accessed April 21, 2018).
  4. ↑ Елизаветинский рудник (accessed April 21, 2018).
  5. ↑ Matveevite (accessed April 20, 2018).
  6. ^ General Matveevite Information (accessed April 20, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Matwejew, Konstantin Konstantinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Матвеев, Константин Константинович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian geologist, mineralogist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamyshlov
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1954
Place of death Sverdlovsk