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Geological Committee


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GEOLOGICAL COMMITTEE, the first governmental geological institution in Russia. It was founded in 1882 as part of the Department of Mines to conduct systematic studies of Russia's geological structure and mineral resources and construct general geological maps and local maps of mining areas. It was in the Geological Committee that national geological disciplines developed such as regional geology and geological cartography, palaeontology and stratigraphics, coal geology, oil geology, geology of ore deposits, hydrogeology, quaternary geology, and geomorphology. The committee work is associated with a number of prominent geologists including G. P. Gelmersen, the first director, A. P. Karpinsky, the director in 1885-1903 and honorary director in 1903-29, N. I. Andrusov, A. A. Borisyak, I. M. Gubkin, A. N. Zavaritsky, A. N. Krishtofovich, L. I. Lutugin, V. P. Nekhoroshev, M. M. Prigorovsky, M. P. Rusakov, N. N. Slavyanov, P. I. Stepanov, et al. The Geological Committee managed, conducted, and supervised all geological work and exploration work that had national importance from 1923 onwards. The committee's functions were taken over by the Main Geological Survey Board under the President of the All-Russian Council for National Economy in 1929. Based on the scientific subdivisions of the committee, separate institutes were founded and united under the Geological Institute in 1931, apart from the Geological Oil Institute. It was situated at 15 Fourth Line of Vasilievsky Island and 74 Sredny Avenue of Vasilievsky Island since 1916.

Reference: Клеопов И. Л. Геологический комитет, 1882-1929 гг.: История геологии в России. М., 1964.

O. N. Ansberg.

Persons
Andrusov Nikolay Ivanovich
Borisyak Alexey Alexeevich
Gelmersen Grigory Petrovich
Gubkin Ivan Mikhailovich
Karpinsky Alexander Petrovich
Krishtofovich Afrikan Nikolaevich
Lutugin Leonid Ivanovich
Nekhoroshev Vasily Petrovich
Prigorovsky M.M.
Rusakov Mikhail Petrovich
Slavyanov Nikolay Nikolaevich
Stepanov Pavel Ivanovich
Zavaritsky Alexander Nikolaevich

Addresses
4th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 15
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 74

Bibliographies
Клеопов И. Л. Геологический комитет, 1882-1929 гг.: История геологии в России. М., 1964

The subject Index
Karpinsky All-Russian Geological Institute



Geological Prospecting Museum

GEOLOGICAL PROSPECTING MUSEUM, Central Research Geological Prospecting Museum Named after F.N. Chernyshev (74 Sredny Avenue of Vasilievsky Island), one of the world’s largest natural science museums

Karpinsky A.P., (1846-1936), geologist

KARPINSKY Alexander Petrovich (1846/47-1936), geologist, Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1886), of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917), and of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1925)

Karpinsky All-Russian Geological Institute

KARPINSKY ALL-RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, a research institute of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, situated at 74 Sredny Avenue of Vasilievsky Island