Lev Dmitrievich Shevyakov

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Lev Dmitrijewitsch Schewjakow ( Russian Лев Дмитриевич Шевяков ; * 3 January July / 15 January  1889 greg. In Wetluga ; † 3 July 1963 in Moscow ) was a Russian mining scientist and university professor .

Life

Shevyakov, son of a small trader, attended secondary school in Nizhny Novgorod and then studied at the Yekaterinoslav Mining Institute with a degree in 1912. In 1913 he became an assistant and then a lecturer at the institute's chair . In 1919 he defended his dissertation on the exploration of coal deposits , whereupon he became an adjunct . A year later he won the competition for a professorship.

After the October Revolution , Shevyakov became head of the Department of Mining in the Dnepropetrovsk Mining Institute in 1922 . He developed calculation and analysis methods for practical work and devoted himself to organizational and educational tasks. In 1925 he and other experts were sent to Germany , the USA and England to study mining techniques there. In 1928 his book on mineral exploration was published, which immediately became a textbook for the mining institutes.

In 1929 Shevyakov became professor at the Tomsk Technology Institute and advisor to the Siberian branch of the Leningrad project planning institute Giproschacht for the coal industry. In 1932 he became a professor at the Sverdlovsk Mining Institute. In 1935 he received his doctorate in technical sciences . In 1939 he became a real member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR) (since 1991 Russian Academy of Sciences). From 1944 to 1950 he headed the chair for mineral deposits at the Moscow Mining Institute . In 1946 he took over the chairmanship of the Council of the AN-SSSR for the investigation of the productive forces of the USSR as successor to Vladimir Leontjewitsch Komarov , who had headed the council from 1936 to 1945. 1947-1957 Shevyakov was a member of the Gosplan . In 1949 Shevyakov handed over the presidency to Vasily Sergejewitsch Nemtschinow . Shevyakov published more than 300 scientific papers. 1958 appeared his monograph on the project of coal shaft systems .

A monument to Shevyakov stands next to the research institute named after him for problems with the Kursk magnetic anomaly in Gubkin .

Honors, prizes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Great Soviet Encyclopedia : Шевяков, Лев Дмитриевич (accessed June 3, 2018).
  2. ↑ Курносов А. М., Розентретер Б. А .: Лев Дмитриевич Шевяков . Nauka , Moscow 1973.
  3. ↑ a b c d Tomsk Polytechnic University: Шевяков Лев Дмитриевич (accessed on June 3, 2018).
  4. ↑ Russian Academy of Sciences: Шевяков Лев Дмитриевич (accessed June 3, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Shevyakov, Lev Dmitrievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Шевяков, Лев Дмитриевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian mining scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetluga
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1963
Place of death Moscow