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graduated from the Institute of Water Transport Engineers in Vladivostok in 1931
and from the Academy of the Petroleum Industry in 1951. From 1953 to 1955, he
worked in the Yakutsk scientific geological management. In 1955, he became
Deputy Director and from 1964 to 1988, he was Chairman of the Yakutsk Scientific
Center. He joined the Presidium of the Siberian Department of the academy in
1969. He has served as the Director of the Institute of Physical and Technical
Problems of the North since 1973. His works include the design of gas wells, the
development of methods for calculating the reserves of natural gas deposits and for
exploiting gas hydrate deposits, and container-pipeline transportation. He was codiscoverer
of the property of natural gas of forming deposits in the crust in the form
of a solid gas hydrate. He served as a Deputy to the 7th, 8th, and 9th convocations
of the Supreme Soviet. He holds a number of medals recognizing his scientific
contributions. (GSE 29, p. 131.)
Dmitrievskii, Anatolii N., D. GM. S. Corresponding member of the Geology,
Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department of the Academy in
1987; academician in 1993.
Dobretsov, Nikolai L., D. GM. S. Born in 1936. Corresponding member since 1984,
and academician of the Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences
Department of the AN SSSR from December 1987. He graduated from the G. V.
Plekhanov Mining Institute in St. Petersburg in 1957. He worked in the geological
field party on the Altai Geological Expedition of 1957-1960. He joined the Geology
and Geophysics Institute of the Siberian Department in 1960, working in the
Metamorphic Formation Laboratory from 1972 to 1980. From 1971-72 he worked
in the Chemistry Laboratory of the Tectonics and Geophysics Institute of the
National Academy. From 1980 to 1988, he served as Director of the Geology
Institute of the Buriat Scientific Center in Ulan Ude (established in 1973). Since
1988, he has been the Chairman of the Ulan Ude Scientific Center. In 1988, he was
named Director of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Siberian Branch
of the National Academy. He has been designated a professor since 1972. He has
chaired the commission on metamorphosis and metamorphogeny of mineral
deposits and has headed the Petrography Committee of the Academy. He is
currently Head of the Compound Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy Institute in
Akademgorodok-Novosibirsk which conducts basic geological work on Siberian
mineral resources. It studies the oil-gas capacity of the paleozoic stratum in Western
and Eastern Siberia, proposes methods for accelerating the mining of oil and gas in
Siberia, and is working on the natural gases found in a solid state in the Earth's
crust. Dobretsov also heads the Geological Correlation Laboratory of the Geology
Institute. Following the untimely death of Dr. Koptyug in January of 1997,
Dobretsov was elected President of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of
Sciences.
Galimov, E. M., D. Geo. & Min. S. Academician of The Geology, Geophysics,
Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department in 1993. The Geochemistry of
Carbon Laboratory, under his direction, in 1973 began studies on the history of
carbon in the earth’s crust, including the history of life, the geochemical role of
carbon and organic matter, and oil formation.
Gramberg, Igor S., D. GM. S. Born in 1922. Geologist. Corresponding member of
the Geology, Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Mining Sciences Department since
1979, and, academician since 1987. Since 1975, he has been Director of Affiliated
Research Organization (ARO), Geology and Mineral Resources of the World
Oceans Institute under the Ministry of Geology. The institute is subordinate to the
Northern Marine Geological-Geophysical Scientific Production Association of the
Ministry of Geology. Located in St. Petersburg and established in 1947, the
institute researches the terrestrial geology and geophysics of the Arctic and Antarctic
Oceans.
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