YAKUT INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES

.	YAKUT INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES
	Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Division
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Scientific works	Institute of Geological Sciences of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences 677891, GSP, Yakutsk, prospect Lenina, 39 Fax:411-2244-57-08 E-mail: geo@yacc.yakutia.su The Director of the Institute is Honored Scientist of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Professor, Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy Boris V.Oleynikov Deputy Director on science, Candidate of Geology and Mineralogy Albert I.Zaytsev Deputy Director on science, Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy Vladimir A.Kashirtsev Scientific Secretary, Candidate of Geology and Mineralogy Zinaida S.Nikiforova The Director of the Institute is Honored Scientist of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Professor, Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy Boris V.Oleynikov The employees of the Institute amount to 260 people, including 92 research workers, 16 of whom are Doctors of Sciences and 54 Candidates of Sciences. The Institute comprises the following 5 departments: department of regional geology, department of geology and geochemistry of hydrocarbons, department of mining geology, department of magmatic and metamorphic formations, department of physiochemical methods of analysis. These departments combine 18 laboratories and a geological museum which has a status of a laboratory. Year of establishment - 1957 Directors of the Institute: The first Director and the founder of the Institute was Honored Scientist of the Yakut Autonomic Soviet Socialist Republic, Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy, U.P.Ivensen. In 1957-1964 the Institute was headed by Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Professor I.S.Rozhkov. From 1965 to 1978 the Director was Honored Scientist of the Russian Federate Soviet Socialist Republic and of the Yakut Autonomic Soviet Socialist Republic, Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy, Professor K.B.Mokshantsev. From 1978 to 1986 the Institute was headed by Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Yakut Autonomic Soviet Socialist Republic, Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy, professor V.V.Kovalsky. For nearly a quarter of a century (from 1970 to 1993) the Scientific Secretary of the Institute was Gai P.Mikhalyov. Great contribution to the study of Earth's crust development regularities, and of deposition laws for deposits of different mineral products, was made by Academician N.V.Chersky, Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences I.S.Rozhkov, I.Y.Nekrasov.V.V.Kovalsky, Doctors of Sciences U.P.Ivensen, B.L.Flerov, U.N.Trushkov, K.B.Mokshantsev, G.S.Fradkin, G.S.Gusev, B.V..OIeynikov, V.M.Zhelinsky, V.A..Trunilina, V.S.Shkodzinsky, V.D.Suvorov, K.N.Nikishov, N.I.Nenashev, A.F.Safronov, V.A.Kashirtsev, L.M.Parfenov, P.N.Kolosov, G.N.Gamyanin, A.P.Smelov; Candidates of Sciences A.K.Bobrov, B.S.Rusanov, G.A.Grinberg, A.I.Zaitsev; B.M.Kozmin, K.E.Kolodeznikov, V.A.Amuzinsky, V.E.Filippov, G.P.Bulanova, A.V.Okrugin, K.A.Lazebnic, A.V.Kostin, and other research workers. Theoretical and applied research on thermochemical method for treatment of diamonds, carried out by A.P.Grigoryev, was universally recognized. The Institute's main lines of investigation are the following: -tectonics and geodynamics of Yakutia's lithosphere; -magmatism and genesis of different geodinamic settings, formation and deposition laws for deposits of endogenic minerals; -kimberlite magmatism, formation and deposition laws for diamond deposits; -structure, physical characteristics and genesis of diamonds; -biostratigraphic evaluation of sedimentary lithogenesis, formation and deposition laws for deposits of oil, gas, coal, and other minerals.