Wladimir Wassiljewitsch Menner
Wladimir Wassiljewitsch Menner ( Russian Владимир Васильевич Меннер ; born November 11, 1905 in Schazk (Russia) ; † January 6, 1989 in Moscow ) was a Soviet paleontologist and geologist of German descent.
Menner graduated from Lomonosov University in 1927 and then worked in the Moscow department of the State Geological Committee until 1929. From 1929 he was an assistant at the Mining Academy in Moscow and from 1930 to 1965 he was dean of the Faculty of Geology and head of the department of paleontology (and stratigraphy) at the Moscow Geological Institute of the Academy of Sciences . Since 1965 he was head of the Department of Paleontology at Lomonosov University.
He did field research in the Crimea , the North Caucasus , the Northern Urals , Bashkiria , Siberia and Kamchatka, among others . Menner published, among other things, on belemnites , fossil fish, ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs . Even as a student he dug up ichthyosaurs near Moscow and fossil elephants in Grozny in the Caucasus. He then dealt with the stratigraphy and fish fauna of the Tertiary and in particular the Crimea, the Caucasus and Kazakhstan, and from 1930 to 1934, in particular with the stratigraphy of the known oil and gas deposits by Maikop -Formation on the eastern Crimea. From 1936 to 1938 he led expeditions of the Russian Academy of Sciences to Sochi in search of mineral water springs. In the 1940s he undertook expeditions to explore oil-bearing strata in the Urals, which also led to the first tectonic map of the Northern Urals. 1956 to 1960 he led a major geological expedition to the Kamchatka region. From the 1950s he was mainly concerned with stratigraphy and stratigraphic correlations of layers over the entire territory of the Soviet Union. From 1955 he was deputy head of the Soviet National Stratigraphy Committee. In the late 1950s he was also a pioneer of Precambrian biostratigraphy , which he lectured on at the International Geological Congresses in Copenhagen and New Delhi.
He was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (full member 1966). In 1985 he became a corresponding member of the Paleontological Society . He was a member of the Geological Society of London and the French Geological Society.
From 1968 to 1972 he was president of the IUGS (International Union of Geological Sciences) commission for stratigraphy and from 1972 to 1979 he was president of the sub-commission for the paleogene . From 1976 to 1984 he was Vice President of the IUGS. In 1951 he received the SM Kirov Prize of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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| SURNAME | Menner, Wladimir Wassiljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Меннер, Владимир Васильевич (Russian); Menner, Vladimir Vasilʹevič |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian paleontologist and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shazk (Russia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1989 |
| Place of death | Moscow |