Yuri Alexandrovich Bilibin (Russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Били́бин; 19 May 1901 in Rostov – 4 May 1952 in Leningrad) was a Soviet geologist.
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| Born | 19 May 1901 |
| Died | 4 May 1952 (aged 50) |
| Awards | Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Stalin Prize (1946) |
Biography
editBetween 1919-1921 he served in the Red Army. In 1926 he graduated from the Leningrad Mining Institute. He later became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and in 1946 was awarded the Stalin Prize for his contribution in the discovery of gold deposits in northeast Siberia.[1] Together with mining engineer Evgeny Bobin (1897—1941), Bilibin surveyed and charted the last unmapped areas of continental USSR, the Sette-Daban and the Yudoma-Maya and Aldan highlands, in the course of an expedition sent by the Soviet government in 1934.[2]
Bilibin wrote more than 60 scientific papers, including the authoritative Fundamentals of placer geology (Основы геологии россыпей, 1938). He died in Leningrad in 1952 from an intracerebral hemorrhage and was buried at the Volkovo Cemetery in the Literary Bridges section.[3]
Honors
editBilibino town and Bilibino District in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, as well as the mineral Bilibinskite,[4] were named in his honor. He also was awarded the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", as well as the Stalin Prize in the I degree, for his exploration and discovery of new gold deposits in the Far East of the USSR.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Билибин Юрий Александрович / Great Soviet Encyclopedia; in 35 vols. / Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov . - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2004—2017.
- ^ Essays on the History of Geographical Discoveries (in Russian)
- ^ Volkovo cemetery Necropolis Literary Bridges
- ^ Bilibinskite - Russian Foundation for Basic Researches
External links
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