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Koroteev, Viktor A., C. GM. S. Corresponding member of the Geology,
Geochemistry, Geophysics and Mining Sciences Department and of the Urals
Department since December 1987; academician since 1993. Since 1975, he has
been Director of the V. I. Lenin Ilmenskii State Reserve in Miass in Cheliabinsk
Oblast. This organization was established in 1920 to conduct geological and
biological research in the forests of the Southern Urals Mountains. Deputy
Chairman of the Urals Department since August 1988.
Kropotkin, Petr. N., D. GM. S. Born in 1910 in Moscow. Russian geologist.
Corresponding member of the Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Mining
Sciences Department of the Academy since 1966; academician in 1993. Originally
elected to Earth Sciences Department. He graduated from the S. Ordzhonikidze
Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute in 1932. Since 1959, he has headed the
Tectonics and Geophysics Laboratory of the Geological Institute of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. His main work is in the regional geology of Kazakhstan and
the Far East, and geotectonics. (GSE 13, p. 520.)
Kurlenia, Mikhail V., D. Tech. S. Born in 1931. Engineer. Specialist in mining
mechanics. Corresponding member of the Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry,
and Mining Department and of the Siberian Department since December 1987, and
academician since 1990. He has written 24 scientific works and co-authored 105
others. He has 95 inventions and of his scientific writings, seven are major monographs--all
on aspects of mining. He graduated from the Tomsk Polytechnical
Institute Imeni S. M. Kirov in 1953 and worked there until 1960. In 1960, he
joined the Mining Institute of the Siberian Department in Novosibirsk where, in
turn, he was a senior researcher, Head of a laboratory and a Department, and in
1988, he was named Director of that institute. He became a member of the
Presidium in that year. He has been a professor since 1986. He has supervised the
work of two doctoral and 16 candidate aspirants. He edits a mining journal. He is a
holder of the Badge of Honor and medals for his work.
Laverov, Nikolai P. Born in 1930. Corresponding member since 1979. Academician
of the Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Mining Department of the national
academy since December 1987. Since 1987, he has been President of the
Kirghizstan Academy of Sciences. He was named Vice President of the Russian
Academy of Sciences for the Earth Sciences Section in October, 1988. Since 1990,
he has been the Director of the Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy
and Geochemistry Institute in Moscow. The new institute does ore and mineral
analyses and develops new methods and tools for analysis.
Letnikov, Feliks A., D. GM. S. Born in 1934. Geologist. Specialist in the fields of
geology, geochemistry and petrological processes forming the earth’s crust.
Corresponding member of the Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Mining
Department and of the Siberian Department since December 1987, and academician
since 1992. He has authored and co-authored 230 works of which 15 are monographic
in length and substance. He graduated from the All-Union Correspondence
Polytechnical Institute in 1961. He served on geological expeditions from 1957 to
1965. In 1965, he headed a laboratory of experimental and theoretical petrology,
and in 1980 he was named Deputy Director of the Earth’s Crust Institute in Irkutsk.
He has been a professor since 1978, holding the chair in mineralogy and petrology
at the Irkutsk State University. He has directed the research of three doctoral
students and 23 aspirants for the candidate degree. He is on the commission on
experimental mineralogy and of the commission on metasomatosis of the
Department of Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry and Mining Sciences of the
Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of group participating in the
program “Lithosphere” and “Cybernetic Geodynamics of the Earth’s Crust.” He is
editor of the journal “Geology and Geophysics.”
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