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Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department
6-25, 32a. Leninskii ave. Moscow, 117993 tel 938-55-44. Academician
Secretary of the Department is Academician Vilen A. Zarikov.
Zharikov, Vilen A., D. GM. S. Born in 1926. Corresponding member of the Geology,
Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department of the Academy since
1972, and academician since December 1987. From 1969 to 1981, he was Deputy
Director of the Experimental Mineralogy Institute at Chernogolovka. Since 1981, he
has been the Director of the Experimental Mineralogy Institute at Chernogolovka
that was established in 1969 to study the physical chemical conditions of the
formation of minerals, ores, and rocks and the origin and migration of magmas in
the earth's crust and mantle.
Retrospect: In 1980, the four leading institutes subordinate to the Geology, Geophysics,
Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department housed 87 percent of the scientists
working in the 12 institutes of the department, as illustrated in Figure 26. By 1987,
the Department had cut the number of its institutes to ten. The greatest research
effort occurs in the O. E. Shmidt Physics of the Earth Institute, the V. I. Vernadskii
Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry Institute, the Geology Institute, and the
Geology of Ore Bodies, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry--allocated in
Moscow. The other six institutes active in 1987 were: the Mineralogy,
Geochemistry and Crystal Chemistry of Rare Elements, Moscow the Experimental
Mineralogy Institute, Moscow; the Geology and Exploitation of Combustible Fuels,
Moscow; the A. A. Skochinskii Mining Institute, Lyubertsy; the Lithosphere
Institute, Moscow, and the A. E. Fersman Mineralogical Museum in Moscow.
While the Department has some 111 administrative units subordinate to it, the
leading four institutes contained 81 percent of them in 1980. The pattern of distribution
of effort in 1987 was virtually the same.
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