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at the Irkutsk State University where he has guided the research of three doctoral
students and 18 aspirants for the candidate degree. He was on the Scientific Council
for engineering geology and hyrdrogeology of the AN SSSR. He is on the Siberian
Department’s commission for research into subterranean waters in Siberia and in
the Far East, and a member of the Hydrogeology Association.
Poliakov, Gleb V., D. GM. S. Born in 1931. Geologist. Specialist in petrography and
petrology, and in the magmatic formations of Siberia. Corresponding member of
the Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department of the
AN SSSR from 1981--reconfirmed in 1992. He graduated from the Tomsk
Polytechnical Institute imeni S. M. Kirov in 1953 and upon graduation continued to
work there. He is the author of 163 scientific publications of which five are
monographs. In 1960, he joined the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the
Siberian Department, serving as a scientific researcher, both junior and senior, and
Head of the laboratory studying magmatic formation (1976), becoming Deputy
Director of the institute in 1978, and Head of the Department of metallurgy,
petrography, geochemistry and mining deposits in 1985. In 1982, he was made
Head of the Council on doctoral dissertations for the Department of Geology,
Geophysics, Geochemistry and Mining Sciences of the Siberian Department. As a
professor, he has guided the work of ten aspirants for the candidate degree. In
1984, he was Deputy Chairman of the Siberian Petrographic Scientific Council. He
is Head editor of the journal Geology and Geophysics. He received the State Prize
in 1983. He is currently heading a research program on the magmatic formations of
unstable zones, their petrology, and the evolution of economic minerals. Presently
he is Head of the Petrology, Geochemistry and Location of Mineral deposits
Department of the Geology Institute in Akademgorodok-Novosibirsk as well as
Head of the Magmatic Formation Laboratory of that department. He is holder of the
Badge of Honor for his work.
Proskuriakov, Nikolai M. Corresponding member of the Geology, Geophysics,
Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department of the Academy since December
1987. (LDA 89-11378.)
Sergeev, Konstantin F., D. GM. S. Born in 1931. Corresponding member of the
Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department and of the
Far Eastern Department since 1979. Since 1977, he has been Director of the
Marine Geology and Geophysics Institute (formerly the Complex Scientific
Research Institute--Sakhalin) in Novo Aleksandrovsk that is subordinate to the Far
Eastern Department and that does research in the fields of oceanography and
geophysics, including seismology, hydro-acoustics, and the study of tidal waves.
Sobolev, Gennadii A., D. PM. S. Corresponding member of the Geology,
Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department of the Academy in
1991. Since 1974, he has headed the Fracture Mechanics Department of the O. Iurii
Shmidt Earth Physics Institute in Moscow. Since 1991 he has headed the Modeling
and Processes Analysis in Earthquake Focus Laboratory of the institute.
Timofeev, Petr P., D. GM. S. Born in 1918 in Viazma, Smolensk Oblast. Russian
geologist. Corresponding member of the Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and
Mining Sciences Department of the Academy since 1976. He graduated from
Moscow State University in 1943. In 1950, he joined the staff of the Geology
Institute of the AN SSSR. From 1960 to June 1988, he served as Deputy Director
of the Geology Institute in Moscow. In June 1988, he was made Director of the
Geology Institute which was established in 1937 to coordinate geological research
with other branches of the academy and with the other republic academies. His
works are in the study of the geological formations of coal. State Prize, 1972.
(LDA 89-11378.) (GSE 30, p. 668.)
Iakovlev, Viktor L., D. Tech. S. Born in 1934. Mining Engineer. Specialist in mining.
Corresponding member since 1990. From 1982 to 1984 he taught at the Sverdlovsk
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