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The institute publishes Geography and Natural Resources quarterly. The Scientific
Secretary was Ekaterinburg P. Bessolitsina. (Information provided by letter
dated 23 October 1991 from Vladimir V. Vorobev, Director of the
Geography Institute in Irkutsk.)
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51. A. P. Vinogradov Institute of Geochemistry, SB RAS, Irkutsk.
Administration
Director of the Institute
Corr.-member of RAS
Kuzmin Mikhail Ivanovich
Phone: +7(395-2) 46-05-00
Fax: +7(395-2) 46-25-59
E-mail: Mikuzmin@igc.irkutsk.su
[Kuz’min (Kuzmin), Mikhail I., D. GM. S. Born in 1938. Geochemist. Director of
the Geochemistry Institute imen A. V. Vinogradov. Corresponding member of the
Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department of the
Academy and of the Siberian Department since 1990. He is the author of 11
scientific works of which one is a monograph of importance. He has co-authored
140 pieces of which eight are lengthy monographs of which two bear mentioning:
“New Global Tectonics, Magmatism and Metallogeny” (1976) and “The Techtonics
of the Lithosphere’s Plate in the Territory of the Soviet Union” (1990.) In his research
he has conducted comparative studies of the geochemistry of magmatic
ocean rocks. He has headed expeditions for collecting samples for study from the
Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. He is a member of a working group on
“Paleoreconstruction.” He is also on the Russian Committee on the “Lithosphere”
program and the program on “Geodynamics, ” and others. (LDA 89-11378.)]
The institute was established in 1958 by A. P. Vinogradov who was its founding Director.
From 1960 to 1989, the institute was headed by Academician L. V. Tauson. Since
1989 it has been headed by Dr. M. I. Kuz'min. In 1992, institute personnel totaled
362 persons of whom 115 were research scientists and of whom 15 held the
doctorate and 63 the candidate degree. Institute scientists research in the physical
mathematical modeling of geochemical processes and the institute manufactures
helium for use in cryogenic research. The institute is comprised of two departments:
Department of Applied Geochemistry headed by Dr. Pavel V. Koval;
Department of Single Crystals Physics headed by Professor Aleksandr I.
Nepomnyaschikh; an X-Ray Analysis Group chaired by G. G. Afonina, and a
Computer Processing Group that processes geochemical data and is headed by
Valerii I. Lozhkin.
Research is conducted in eleven laboratories:
(1.) Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory: Dr. Mikhail I. Kuzmin, D. GM. S., since
1989;
(2.) Granite Formation and Granitoid Magmatism Laboratory: Professor
Valerii D. Kozlov;
(3.) Pegmatite Geochemistry Laboratory: Professor Boris M. Shmakin;
(4.) Physical-Chemical Modeling Laboratory: Professor Igor K. Karpov;
(5.) Experimental Geochemistry Laboratory: Aleksandr I. Almukhamedov;
(6.) Regional Geochemistry Laboratory: Dr. Viktor S. Antipin;
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