Leonid Ivanovich Lutugin

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Leonid Ivanovich Lutugin

Leonid Ivanovich Lutugin ( Russian Леонид Иванович Лутугин * February 21 . Jul / 4. March  1864 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † August 17 jul. / 30th August  1915 greg. In kolchugino ) was a Russian geologist , and university teachers .

Life

Lutugin came from a wealthy family. His father owned a jewelry store . Lutugin graduated from the St. Petersburg Mining Institute in 1889 and then joined the Geology Committee of the Mining Department of the Ministry of State Property as a geologist . 1890-1891 he took part in the expedition to explore the Timan Ridge . For his research there he received the silver medal of the Russian Geographical Society . In 1892 he began to investigate the coal deposits in the Donbass . 1893-1896 he published his reports on the geological surveys in Lyssychansk and in what is now Luhansk Oblast, with references to the industrial importance of coal deposits. In 1897 he published his work on the Donbass coal basin with FM Tschernyschow. In the same year he was appointed professor at the Mining Institute. He held geology lectures there until 1907.

Lutugin belonged to the illegal liberal Union of Liberation , which existed from 1903 to 1905 , and whose founders and leaders included Ivan Ilyich Petrunkevich , Nikolai Fyodorovich Annensky and Peter Struve , and worked in their magazine. After the Russian Revolution in 1905 , Lutugin took part in the founding assembly of the Constitutional Democratic Party ( Cadets ) in October 1905 , in whose central committee he was elected and which he soon left. In the same year he organized with others the Union of Academics and the Union of Engineers as well as the Union of Unions, of which Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov was one of the founders . In 1907 he ran for the Third State Duma without success . In the same year he was fired from the Mining Institute and the Geology Committee. He was a member of the Imperial Technical Society, of which he became vice-chairman in 1907. In 1908 he became vice president of the Imperial Free Economic Society of Saint Petersburg . At the World Exhibition in Turin in 1911 he presented a comprehensive geological map of the Donbass, for which he received the Great Gold Medal.

In 1913, Lutugin was invited by his former student, managing director and chief engineer Iossif Iossifowitsch Fedorowitsch of the French - German - Belgian joint stock company Kopikus ( Kuznetsk hard coal mining), founded in 1912, to carry out geological surveys for hard coal exploration in Kuzbass . In 1914 Lutugin came to Kuzbass with 14 young geologists at the expense of the joint stock company. Fedorowitsch provided them with everything they needed and founded a chemical laboratory. Lutugin and his group created the first geological map of the Kuzbass and determined the most suitable locations for new mines.

From the beginning of the First World War , Lutugin was a member of the Imperial Technical Society's commission for industrial changes for the war. He represented the Council of the Russian Technical Society at the Conference for the Improvement of Russian Medical Places. At the Imperial Free Economic Society in Saint Petersburg, he organized a group of musicians who gave concerts in hospitals . Together with Maxim Maximowitsch Kowalewski he defended the right of this society to set up military hospitals. Lutugin was a Freemason .

Lutugin was buried in Petrograd in the Volkovo Cemetery in the section of honor at the literary bridges. Lutugin's name is given to the city of Lutuhyne , a mine in Tores and a coal layer in the Kuzbass.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b ЛУТУГИН (accessed October 10, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c Большая биографическая энциклопедия: Лутугин, Леонид Иванович (accessed October 10, 2019).
  3. ↑ a b c Большая российская энциклопедия: ЛУТУ́ГИН Леонид Иванович (accessed October 10, 2019).
  4. ↑ a b c d e MiningWiki - свободная шахтёрская энциклопедия: Лутугин Леонид Иванович (accessed October 10, 2019).
  5. ↑ Lutugin's grave (accessed October 10, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Lutugin, Leonid Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лутугин, Леонид Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian geologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1915
Place of death Kolchugino