Wassili Walerianowitsch Weber
Wassili Walerianowitsch Weber ( Russian Василий Валерианович Вебер ; * December 31, 1899 July / January 12, 1900 greg. In Tbilisi ; † February 9, 1987 in Moscow ) was a Russian geologist .
Life
Weber's parents were the geologist Valerian Nikolajewitsch Weber and the teacher Jelena Wassiljewna nee Bekarjukowa (1873–1942). The family moved to St. Petersburg after Weber was born . From 1910 Weber attended the Petrograd grammar school there with joint lessons, which he left with a gold medal in 1918 after the October Revolution . Then he studied at the Petrograd Mining Institute in the Geology Department of the Faculty of Geology and prospecting with completion in 1924. During his studies he participated in exploration work on the Svir , in Ukhta -type region, in Pechory -type region, the Kuzbass and Kazimir Petrovich Kalizki in Grozny - oil region in part.
After graduation, Weber worked in the coal section of the Geolkom (Geological Committee of the All-Russian Geological Institute). In 1928 he became a senior geologist in the petroleum section. After the Geolkom was dissolved in 1929, it was transferred to the All-Russian Research Institute for Geological Prospecting (WNIGRI), which was founded in 1930. During the German-Soviet War in 1942 he led the oil expedition in the area south of the Emba . In 1946 he became a senior scientist at WNIGRI (until 1984). Weber's investigations led to the opening of many oil fields in Azerbaijan . Weber led the work on the creation of the geological and tectonic map of the oil and gas regions . He was a doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences . He was the author of many specialist articles.
Honors, prizes
- Award in the socialist competition of the People's Commissariat for Petroleum (1940)
- Stakhanovets (1941, three times)
- Medal "For heroic work in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1945)
- Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union (1948)
- Order of Lenin (1953)
- Anniversary medal "In memory of the 100th birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970)
- Honored Geologist of the RSFSR (1980)
- Medal "Veteran of Labor" (1980)
- Gubkin Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1984)
- Medal "40. Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 " (1985)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Памяти профессора Василия Валериановича Вебера (accessed February 14, 2018).
- ↑ a b Информационная система История геологии и горного дела персоналия: Вебер Василий Валерианович , 2018 (accessed on February 14, 2018).
- ↑ Козулин А .: Оказывать всемерное содействие … In: Красное знамя . No. 81 , April 4, 1976, pp. 4 ( [1] accessed on February 14, 2018 [PDF]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weber, Wassili Walerianowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Вебер, Василий Валерианович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tbilisi |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1987 |
| Place of death | Moscow |