Pushcharovsky, Yuri Mikhailovich

Yury Mikhailovich Pushcharovsky was born on December 18 ( 31 ), 1916 in Petrograd , baptized him in the Kazan Cathedral . He spent his childhood in the village of Syukeevo , since 1924 the family moved to Moscow ^[2] .

Education

In 1931 he graduated from the seven-year school and entered the school of the trade school at the Sickle and Molot plant, where he studied until 1933.

In 1935, he passed the entrance exams to the MGRI , went to classes for a month, but was not enrolled (due to the fact that his grandfather, S. D. Pushcharovsky (1867-1903), was a priest).

In 1936–1937, he studied in the evening preparation courses for the university, where he received a second diploma in secondary education and met his future wife.

In 1937-1941 he studied at Moscow State University . First, at the Faculty of Geography , and after the Crimean Geological Practice of the 2nd year, he transferred to the Geology and Soil Faculty of Moscow State University . He was an excellent student and a Stalin scholarship. He received the diploma in 1943, in accordance with a government decree for front-line soldiers who have completed 4 years of higher education.

Great Patriotic War

On July 24, 1941 he served in the Red Army . He studied in the summer camps of the school at the Military-Political Academy. V.I. Lenin. From September 11 on the North-Western Front in the post and. about. political officer of the company. On September 21 he was wounded by shrapnel in the head, until January 2, 1942 he was in the hospital.

Then he was transferred from infantry to aviation, where he became the head of the service of fuel and lubricants (POL) of the battalion of airfield service. There he met and became friends with Yu. A. Kosygin , who inspected him.

In 1944 he became the head of fuel and lubricants of the entire area of ​​air bases and was promoted to lieutenant technician. In December 1944, he was transferred from Poland to Moscow - to the fuel department of the Air Force headquarters. Participant of the Victory Parade in Moscow ^[3] . Demobilized in December 1945 ^[4] .

Scientific work

In the years 1933-1934 - collector MGRI .

1935-1937 - senior laboratory assistant at the Lomonosov Institute of Geochemistry, Crystallography and Mineralogy of the USSR Academy of Sciences . 4 months he worked in the South Emba oil expedition in Western Kazakhstan.

Since 1946, he has worked for more than 70 years at the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IGN AS USSR, GIN AS USSR, GIN RAS): ^[5]

• 1946-1968 - Junior Researcher
• In March 1950 he defended his thesis on the topic: "Stratigraphy and tectonics of the Outer (skibov) zone of the Eastern Carpathians"
• 1952-1953 - Scientific Secretary of the Institute
• 1953-1969 - Senior Researcher
• 1959 - defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: "The Priverkhoyansk marginal deflection and mesozoids of Northeast Asia" (approved by the Higher Attestation Commission in 1960)
• 1960 - business trip to the People's Republic of China to coordinate work on the compilation of a tectonic map of Eurasia (scale 1: 5,000,000)
• 1964 - business trip to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam for tectonic research
• 1965, 1968, 1974 - business trips to Cuba for conducting tectonic studies and compiling a geological map of Cuba in a scale of 1: 250,000 (1968, 1974)
• 1969-1988 - Head of the Laboratory of tectonics of the oceans and oceanic zones
• 1971 - business trip to Chile for tectonic research
• 1973 - expedition member on the ship " Vityaz " in the Indian Ocean
• 1976 - awarded the title of professor for the training of graduate students
• 1981–1990 - Scientific Director of the Litos project at the State Integrated Program “World Ocean”
• 1982-1986 - scientific leader of the geological expedition to the Cape Verde Islands
• 1983–1990 - Scientific Director of the Eastern Integrated Geological Expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences Academy of Sciences
• The organizer and supervisor of the first 2 dozen expeditions on a scientific ship Academician Nikolai Strakhov .

In the last years of his life he held the posts ^[6] :

• Advisor RAS.
• Leader of the Ocean Tectonics Group, Laboratory of Tectonics of the Oceans and Oceanic Zones, Department of Tectonics, GIN RAS.
• Advisor to the Director of GIN RAS.

From March 25, 2017, after the death of T. I. Oizerman , he was the oldest academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

He died on May 3, 2018 , in Moscow. He was buried at Donskoy cemetery (section 4) [1] .

• Wife - Fania Arkadyevna (1918-1996) - a graduate of the biological faculty of Moscow State University. Married since November 21, 1940.
• Son - Pushcharovsky, Dmitry Yuryevich (born 1944) - Dean of the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University (since 2002), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2008).

• 1943 - Order of the Red Star
• 1943 - Medal "For Military Merit"
• 1945 - Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• 1948 - Medal "In memory of the 800th anniversary of Moscow"
• 1959 - Medal "100th Anniversary of International Geophysics"
• 1963 - Order of the Badge of Honor for achievements in the development of geological exploration, discovery and exploration of mineral deposits ^[7]
• 1963 - Prize MOIP for the monograph "Priveryoyansky regional trough and mesozoids of Northeast Asia"
• 1965 - Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• 1969 - USSR State Prize for the Tectonic Map of Eurasia and the monograph “Tectonics of Eurasia”
• 1969 - Jubilee Medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
• 1970 - Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• 1970 - Medal "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
• 1974 - Gold medal named after A. Karpinsky for work on the tectonics of the Pacific segment of the Earth
• 1974 - Prize MOIP for the book "Introduction to the tectonics of the Pacific segment of the Earth"
• 1975 - Order of the Red Banner of Labor in connection with the 250th anniversary of the USSR Academy of Sciences ^[8]
• 1978 - Jubilee Medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
• 1979 - Gold medal named after A. Karpinsky for a series of works on the theme “Tectonics of the oceans and near-ocean zones”
• 1980 - Badge Excellence in exploration of mineral resources
• 1984 - Medal "Veteran of Labor"
• 1985 - Order of the Patriotic War, I degree
• 1985 - Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• 1987 - Order of the Red Banner of Labor for merits in the development of geological science, the training of scientific personnel and in connection with the 70th anniversary of his birth
• 1987 - Badge of Honor of the Earth
• 1995 - State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology for the series of works "Tectonic stratification of the lithosphere and regional geological research" ^[9]
• 1995 - Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• 1996 - Gold medal named after A. Karpinsky for the totality of works on regional geology, tectonics and geodynamics of continents and oceans
• 1996 - Zhukov Medal
• 1996 - Anniversary Medal "300th Anniversary of the Russian Navy"
• 1997 - Medal "In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow"
• 2000 - Medal "For participation in the military parade on Victory Day"
• 2003 - The N. Shatsky Prize - For a series of works “Ocean Tectonics, Regional and General Studies”
• 2007 - Order of Honor (Russia) ^[10] .

Author of 488 scientific works, including monographs, tectonic and geological maps ^[11] . Among them:

• Yu. M. Pushcharovsky. Regional troughs, their tectonic structure and development. 1959.
• Yu. M. Pushcharovsky. Introduction to the tectonics of the Pacific segment of the Earth. 1972.
• Yu. M. Pushcharovsky, E. N. Melankholina. Tectonic development of the Earth. Pacific Ocean and its framing. 1992
• Yu. M. Pushcharovsky. Atlantic tectonics with elements of nonlinear geodynamics. 1994.
• Yu. M. Pushcharovsky. Tectonic provinces of the Atlantic Ocean. 2009
• Yu. M. Pushcharovsky, E. S. Bazilevskaya. The richest undeveloped ore resources. 2009
• Yu. M. Pushcharovsky, D. Yu. Pushcharovsky . Geology of the mantle of the Earth. 2010
• Yu. M. Pushcharovsky. Tectonic structure and geodynamics of the Atlantic and Arctic Ocean section. 2010

Editorial:

• Editor-in-Chief of Geotectonics magazine.
• 1968–1989 - member of the editorial board, since 1982 - deputy chief editor of the journal “Nature”.
• Since 1989 - Member of the editorial board of the journal "Reports of the Academy of Sciences."

• 1997 - Copyright certificate № 72 for the discovery of the Ust-Vilyuisk natural gas field:
• 1951 - scientific substantiation of geological prospecting
• 1956 - experimental confirmation of discovery

• Yuri Mikhailovich Pushcharovsky. M .: Science, 1991. 86 p. (Materials to the biobibliography of scientists. Series of geological sciences; Vol. 40); 2nd edition enlarged. M .: Nauka, 2004. 151 p. (Issue 62) ^[12] ; 3rd edition enlarged. M .: Science, 2011. 152 p. (Issue 68).

• Profile of Yuri Mikhailovich Pushcharovsky on the official website of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Profile on the official website of GIN RAS .
• In memory of Academician Yury Mikhailovich Pushcharovsky - Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.