Luchitsky, Vladimir Ivanovich

Vladimir Ivanovich Luchitsky was born on April 20 ( May 2, according to a new style) in 1877 in Kiev in the family of a historian , professor of Kiev University Ivan Vasilyevich Luchitsky ^[1] , mother translator Maria Luchitskaya .

Training

In 1895, Vladimir began to study at the natural department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Kiev University . In 1899 he graduated with a gold medal. The teacher and mentor of Vladimir Ivanovich was Professor Pyotr Yakovlevich Armashevsky , who contributed to the fact that his student received a scholarship from the Department of Mineralogy (in 1899-1905), was on a business trip to Germany (in 1903-1905). Under the leadership of Armashevsky Vladimir Luchitsky defended his master's thesis "Petrographic studies of the Bavarian forest", and in 1912 - his doctoral dissertation " rapakivi of the Kiev province and the species that accompany it."

Scientific activity

In 1908 - 1914, Luchitsky was a professor at the Department of Mineralogy of the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute . April 10, 1912 ( April 23, 1912 ) in Warsaw he had a son - Igor Luchitsky , who also became a famous geologist , corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences .

In 1915 - 1916 he was a professor at Kiev University , was involved in the expedition to the Tuya-Muyunskoye field in the Ferghana Valley , which was led by academician V.I. Vernadsky .

The main group of the expedition was composed of D.I. Mushketov, associate geologist of the Geological Committee , and D.V. Nalivkin , I.M. Moskvin, and E.V. Ivanov, students. V.I. Luchitsky, together with B.A. Lindener, carried out petrographic and mineralogical works. Geologists L. S. Kolovrat-Chervinsky and B. A. Lindener closely cooperated with the expedition. As a result of the expedition, a geological and petrographic map of the area was compiled, but other deposits of uranium ore were not discovered ^[2] .

V.I. Luchitsky was one of the organizers of the Ukrainian Geological Committee , in 1917-1923 he headed it.

In 1919 - 1921 - professor of the Department of Mineralogy, Tauride University .

Professor at Kiev University (1913-1923 and 1945-1949), Moscow Mining Academy (1923-1930) and Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute (1930-1941).

In 1941-1945 he conducted geological exploration in the Urals .

Since 1947, Director of the Institute of Geological Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR .

Academician Luchitsky died of chronic jade in Kiev on October 20, 1949 .

• Son - geologist Luchitsky, Igor Vladimirovich
• Granddaughter - historian Luchitskaya, Svetlana Igorevna

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (06/10/1945)

He worked in the field of petrography , stratigraphy , and hydrogeology .

Of great importance are his work on the study of the Ukrainian crystalline shield , Crimea .

Discovered deposits of graphite , kaolin .

Developed hydrogeological and geological characteristics of the territory of Ukraine. Compiled hydrogeological and geological maps of Ukraine.

Vladimir Ivanovich published a number of textbooks and teaching aids on petrography and minerals, in particular: Petrography, which survived five editions (1910, 1922, 1932, 1934, 1938), as well as The Petrography Course (1910) ( Luchitsky, V. I. Petrography course. - St. Petersburg-Kiev: Associate, 1910. - 296 p.), “Petrography of Ukraine” (1934), “Petrography of Crimea” (1939), “Petrographic Provinces of the USSR” (1936) and others.

Vladimir Ivanovich belonged to geologists of a wide range of activities. Even dealing with petrographic and petrological problems, he used and adapted them to solve the problems of Precambrian stratigraphy and the geology of mineral deposits in particular. He paid most attention to the study of the Ukrainian shield. His works “rapakivi of the Kiev province and the rocks that accompany him” (1912), “Precambrian stratigraphy of the Ukrainian crystalline massif” (1939), “Ukrainian stratigraphic massif” (1947) have not lost their significance today.

Over the years, Luchitsky investigated minerals, in particular, the iron ore deposits of the Kerch Peninsula , the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly , the Krivoy Rog , the kaolin deposits of Ukraine, the Urals , muscovites and phlogopites of Siberia , graphite Pobuzhia , vermiculites , chromites , and titanomagnetite ores of the Urals. The result of these studies was the work "Kerch Iron Ore District" (1922), "Minerals of Ukraine" (1933), "Phosphorites, their origin, distribution, receipt and use" (1923), "Kaolins of Ukraine" (1928), "Kaolin industry USSR and standardization of its products ”(1938).

The scientist made a significant contribution to hydrogeology . A lot of his works are devoted to water supply in large industrial centers of Ukraine. Noteworthy are his publications “The Age of Aquifers of the Kiev-Kharkov Basin” (1924), “Hydrogeological Map of Ukraine” (1925), “Hydrogeological Studies of the City of Stalin and its District” (1926), “Hydrogeological Features of the Artesian Horizons of Kiev” (1927).

• Encyclopedia of Ukrainian studies / V. Kubіyovich . - Paris; New York: Young Life, 1954-1989. (Ukrainian) Slovnikova chastin. - T. 4. - S. 1389.
• Ukrainian Radian encyclopedic dictionary . - T. 2. - K., 1967 .-- S. 377.
• Українська Radyansk Encyclopedia . - 2nd view. - T. 6. - Kiev, 1981. - S. 246.
• Onoprіnko Valentin . Volodimir Ivanovich Luchitsky. - K .: Naukova Dumka, 1991 .-- 192 p.

• Luchitsky V.I. (inaccessible link)
• Luchitsky Vladimir Ivanovich (neopr.) . Chronicle of Moscow University . Date of treatment November 24, 2017.