Samoilov, Yakov Vladimirovich

Born on November 23 ( December 5 ), 1870 in Odessa , in the family of a craftsman.

In 1893 he graduated with honors from the Natural Department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Novorossiysk University . Consisted of a supernumerary laboratory assistant in the mineralogical laboratory. In July 1893 he converted to Orthodoxy, and in March 1894 he received permission to change his name to Samoilov ^[2] .

In 1895 he moved to Moscow and began working at Moscow University under the guidance of V.I. Vernadsky . In 1902 he defended his thesis for a master's degree in mineralogy and geology “Materials for Barite Crystallography” and was invited to lead the Department of Mineralogy and Geology at the New Alexandrian Agricultural Institute . He defended his doctoral dissertation “Mineralogy of vein deposits of the Nagolny Ridge” in 1906 at Moscow University.

Since December 1906 - Associate Professor at the Moscow Agricultural Institute , where he created the Mineralogical Museum of Agronomic Ores. At the same time, in 1907-1911, as a privat-docent at Moscow University, he gave lectures on mineralogy. He taught at the Moscow City People's University. A. L. Shanyavsky .

In 1908, he organized a commission for the geological study of phosphorites in Russia.

During the events of 1911 he left Moscow University; in 1917 he returned to work at Moscow University; elected professor and director of the Mineralogy Research Institute. In 1919, he founded and headed the Scientific Institute for Fertilizers (now the Research Institute for Fertilizers and Insectofungicides named after Yakov Samoilov - NIUIF) .

In 1913 he became a professor at the Department of Mineralogy and Geology of the Moscow Agricultural Institute and a supernumerary professor at the Moscow Commercial Institute .

In 1919, he was a professor at the Moscow Mining Academy , along with N. M. Fedorovsky headed the Mineralogical Institute of the Moscow State Academy ^[3] . In 1921, he organized complex geochemical work at the Floating Marine Institute (Plavmorin).

He published about 140 works devoted mainly to the mineralogy of sedimentary rocks, the study of agronomic ores and biogeochemistry ^[4] . He studied the mineralogy and petrography of phosphorites and developed a biolithic theory of their origin. He initiated the study of the chemical composition of modern seas and living organisms. In 1919, Samoilov was one of the first to suggest the presence of potash deposits in the Solikamsk region, which was confirmed in 1926.

• Samoilov, Yakov Vladimirovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Samoilov Yakov Vladimirovich - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
• Volkov V.A., Kulikova M.V. Moscow professors of the 18th - early 20th centuries. Natural and technical sciences. - M .: Janus-K; Moscow textbooks and cartolithography, 2003. - S. 208-209. - 294 p. - 2,000 copies. - ISBN 5-8037-0164-5 .
• Vernadsky V. I. From the history of mineralogy at Moscow University: in memory of prof. Ya. V. Samoilova // Essays on the history of geological knowledge. - M.: USSR Academy of Sciences, 1956. - Issue. 5. - S. 176-188.
• Volfkovich S.I. Yakov Vladimirovich Samoilov // Results of the work of 1919-1944. - M.-L., 1946
• Onoprienko V.I. Yakov Vladimirovich Samoilov: (1870-1925). - Kiev: Inform. analyte. Agency, 2015 .-- 335 s. - (Series RAS: Scientific and biographical literature).
• Shubnikova O. M. Academician Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky and Professor Yakov Vladimirovich Samoilov // Essays on the history of geological knowledge, c. 2 t. - M., 1953.
• Kholodov V. N. At the origins of modern lithology: On the 125th anniversary of the birth of Y. V. Samoilov // Lithology and minerals. - 1996. - No. 6. - S. 563-571.

• Samoilov Yakov Vladimirovich (neopr.) . Chronicle of Moscow University . Date of treatment November 30, 2017.
• Scientific biography
• Proceedings in the electronic library "Scientific Heritage of Russia"