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asis for discovering the mechanism for the creation of granite and forecasting
deposits;
(3.) the Magmatic Platform Laboratory under Valerii V. Zolotukhin, D. GM. S.
who is heading studies of permo-triasic magmatic formations of the Siberian
Platform, their natural regularity, specific composition, genesis and depositions;
(4.) the Petrology of Magmatic Rocks Laboratory under Vadim V. Belinskii, D.
GM. S. who heads a program studying the formation of Alpinic and other rocks;
(5.) the Origin of Ore-bearing Formations Laboratory under Elimir G. Distanov,
D. GM. S. who heads a group developing a geological and genetic model of the
formation of polymetals and pyrite polymetal deposits with the objective of finding
the regularity of their occurrence and the specifics of their evolutionary
development;
(6.) the Ore-magmatic System Laboratory under Vitalii I. Sotnikov, D. GM. S.
who is leading on the dynamics of ore magmatic systems of the earth’s mantel and
core and the type of ore concentrations and formation therein;
(7.) the Dynamics of Ore-bearing Formation Processes Laboratory under
Viktor N. Sharapov who is researching the indigenous systems and the
development of the theory of their evolution;
(8.) the Hydrothermal Ore-bearing Laboratory under Aleksandr A. Obolenskii, D.
GM. S. who is guiding a study on the genetic models of ore formation and ore
creating systems, and the hydrothermal deposits of structures of tectonic-magmatic
activation;
(9.) the Geochemistry of Noble Metals Laboratory under M. P. Mazurov, D.
Geo. M. S., of this laboratory is conducting studies on the development of the
mineralogical basis for singling out and classifying the ore creation systems of
different degrees of productivity and defining the conditions of their creation and
evolution;
(10.) the Geochemistry Research Laboratory under Iurii G. Shcherbakov, D.
Geo. M. S. is heading the study of the geochemistry of elements and isotopes in
the processes of the concentration of noble metals;
(11.) the Geochemistry of Rare and Radioactive Elements Laboratory under
Viktor P. Kovalev, D. GM. S. who is leading a group in the study of radioactive,
rare earth, and rare elements as indicators of indigenous rock-creating systems and
their ore depositions, and F. V. Sukhorukov of this laboratory is also studying the
geochemistry of rare elements in processes of the creation of granite and wind
erosion, and
(12.) the Geological Correlation Laboratory under Academician Nikolai L.
Dobretsov--V. M. Gavshin of this laboratory is studying the geochemistry of
lithogenesis in the greatest sedimentary basins in Siberia. The academician secretary
to the institute is Aleksei A. Puzyrev, C. GM. S.
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10. Mineralogy and Petrography Institute in Akademgorodok is under
Academician Nikolai V. Sobolev.
Sobolev, Nikolai V., D. GM. S. Born in 1935. Geologist. Specialist in Mineralogy
and petrology. Corresponding member of The Geology, Geophysics,
Geochemistry, and Mining Sciences Department of the Academy since 1981, and
academician since 1992. He graduated from L’vovsk State University in 1958. He
worked at the Mineralogical museum at the university. In 1960 he joined the
Geology and Geophysics Institute of the Siberian Department, working as a junior
and senior researchers and head of the Laboratory of High Pressure Minerals
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