Pavel Ivanovich Preobrazhensky

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Pavel Ivanovich Preobrazhensky (1914)

Pavel Ivanovich Preobrazhensky ( Russian Павел Иванович Преображенский ; born January 1, jul. / 13. January  1874 greg. In Ujesd Demyansk ; † 10. September 1944 in Moscow ) was a Russian geologist , and university teachers .

Life

Preobrazhensky, the son of a priest, graduated from the Tashkent high school in 1892 with a gold medal and then studied at the physics - mathematics faculty of Moscow University . He then moved to the St. Petersburg Mining Institute , where he graduated as a mining engineer in 1900.

1901 Preobrazhensky was by Vladimir Obruchev in the working group to study the Lena - Gold Fields added. 1908–1909 Preobrazhensky studied at the University of Munich . He was then head of a group of geologists in the Urals to determine a railway line from Ufa to Magnetberg near what would later become Magnitogorsk . He taught at the Mining Institute and was active in the Russian Technical Society. In 1913 he became a senior geologist of the State Geological Committee and from 1916 headed its Siberian section. During the First World War , he served in a medical department of the engineering command.

After the February Revolution of 1917 Preobrazhensky was Deputy National Education Minister of the Provisional Government with responsibility for issues relating to vocational training. After the October Revolution he returned to his work on the Geological Committee. In 1918 he lived in Vladivostok and then in Orenburg , where he, among others, with the organization of a free university along the lines of the Moscow Schanjawski - People's University employed.

In November 1918, Preobrazhensky became Deputy National Education Minister of the Siberian Government of the White Army under Commander-in-Chief Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak in Omsk during the Russian Civil War . Because of disputes, especially with Vasily Vasilievich Saposhnikov , Preobrazhensky went on vacation for a while, but in May 1919 he became minister of education. He developed a bill for the creation of a unified school in a democratic spirit. In January 1920 he was arrested in Irkutsk and sentenced in May 1920 by the Extraordinary Revolutionary Tribunal of Siberia to imprisonment with forced labor until the end of the civil war. Scientists together with Maxim Gorky sent a telegram to Lenin requesting the lifting of the conviction of the geologist necessary for Russia.

In June 1920 Preobrazhensky became deputy head of the People's Education Department of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee and chairman of the Siberian Committee for Technical Vocational Training. From 1921 he taught as a professor of geology at the new Perm University . In 1922 he was elected dean of the agronomic faculty to succeed Alexander-Paul Henckel . When Boris Konstantinowitsch Polenow died in 1923, Preobrazhensky took over the management of his chair for geology and mineralogy . In addition to his work in Perm , he taught at the Yekaterinburg Mining Institute , where he founded the Chair of Mineral Geology . He examined the coal deposit- at Gornozavodsk that Schurawlinskoje- bauxite -Lagerstätte and aluminum - ores at the Chusovaya .

In autumn 1924 he became a senior geologist in the main prospecting office in Leningrad (successor to the Geological Committee) and later moved to the Central Research Institute for Prospecting. He remained an adjunct professor at Perm University. In October 1925, the group of geologists he led discovered a huge sylvinite deposit at a depth of 100 m while drilling in Solikamsk . Then there began the construction of a chemical combine , which was completed 1934th In 1929, Preobrazhensky opened up the Verkechshotovskoye oil field near Chusovoy . He initiated the use of gravimetry in the investigation of salt deposits . He campaigned for the extraction of bromine , boron , rubidium and other elements from salts. He examined salt deposits near Ischimbai , salt lakes in Western Siberia and salt deposits in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan . He advised geologists prospecting in Artemivsk Raion . He estimated the salt stocks in Eastern Siberia and considered them to be very high. In 1935 he received his doctorate in mineralogical sciences . In 1937 he took part in the 17th International Geological Congress in Moscow.

During the German-Soviet War he organized with others in the blocked Leningrad the salt research institute, of which he was deputy director from 1941 to 1943. He then became Vice Director of the State Research Institute for Mining Chemical Raw Materials in Moscow.

The mineral probrazhenskite bears Preobrazhensky's name. In Berezniki a street was named after Preobrazhensky.

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  1. ↑ Great Soviet Encyclopedia : Преображенский Павел Иванович (accessed June 3, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Преображенский Павел Иванович . In: Профессора Пермского государственного университета: (1916–2001) . Изд-во Перм. ун-та, Perm 2001, p. 158–159 ( psu.ru [PDF; accessed June 3, 2019]).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Novgorodskaja Oblast: Преображенский Павел Иванович (accessed June 3, 2019).
  4. ↑ a b c d Преображенский, Павел Иванович // “Историческая энциклопедия Сибири” (2009) (accessed June 3, 2019).
  5. ↑ Permski Krai: ПРЕОБРАЖЕНСКИЙ ПАВЕЛ ИВАНОВИЧ (accessed June 3, 2019).
  6. ↑ Musei Permskoi Nefti: Книга трудовой доблести (accessed June 3, 2019).
  7. ↑ Perm University: О кафедре (accessed June 3, 2018).
  8. ↑ Организация и становление высшего сельскохозяйственного образования: от факультение к инститит1930 к инститит1930 (1918 . In: Без малого 100: Пермская государственная сельскохозяйственная академия с 1918 года в высшем сельскохозяйственном образовании - время выбрало нас . 2nd Edition. Изд-во ФГБОУ ВПО Пермская ГСХА, Perm 2013, p. 36 .
  9. ↑ Иванов А.А .: Герой социалистической стройки П.И. Преображенский . In: Разведка недр . No. 11 , 1934, pp. 13-14 ( benran.ru [accessed June 3, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Mineralienatlas - Fossilatlas: Preobrazhenskit (accessed on June 3, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Preobrazhensky, Pavel Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Преображенский, Павел Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian geologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Uezd Demyansk
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1944
Place of death Moscow