Klimov, Lev Vladimirovich

Born in Peterhof. Father, Vladimir Viktorovich - officer of the Red Army ; mother, Anastasia Ivanovna - employee of the Peterhof Department of Education. In 1928 - 1938 he studied at the Peterhof school No. 1. After graduation, he entered the Mining Institute , but soon left school due to material difficulties ^[4] . For some time he served as an accountant in the Peterhof Trust Canteens.

In June 1941 he was mobilized into the Red Army. Directed by a radio telegraph operator to the I separate division of the special service of the NKVD troops (OCHNAZ). He served until October 1945 . The military unit was stationed in Shuvalovo . He was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" and the Order of the Patriotic War II degree (from 04/06/1985 ^[5] ).

At the end of the war , he again entered the Leningrad Mining Institute, specializing in "Geological survey and prospecting for deposits." He graduated with honors in 1950 ^[4] . He worked in the Karelian-Finnish branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences . In 1948-1950 he worked in Anabar ( Yakutia ). In 1950, Klimov was awarded the title of engineer-geologist of the third rank. He was sent to work on the Special Eastern Expedition, which carried out activities in the DPRK during the Korean War . Since 1951 he was considered the head of the party Expedition No. 4 ^[4] . In 1953 he was on a short trip in Mongolia . Upon completion of the service, he returned to Moscow. He was noted by the Korean government and awarded the Order of the State Banner of the DPRK II degree .

Since 1953 - in graduate school of the Precambrian Laboratory of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (later - Institute of Geology and Geochronology of the Precambrian RAS ). He worked in Yakutia, on the Aldan shield . Prepared a dissertation, but did not bring it to the defense ^[4] . In 1957, the first article of L.V. Klimova “On the position of iron ores in the stratigraphic diagram of the Aldan Archean”.

In 1956, Klimov transferred to work at the Arctic Geology Research Institute (now VNIIOkeangeologiya ). He begins to work actively in the complex Soviet Antarctic Expeditions (CAE). Participated in the 2nd CAE. The appearance of Klimov in NIIGA geologists E.N. Kamenev and S.F. Dukhanin is explained by the fact that “then at the NIIGA there were not enough pre-Cambrian geologists” ^[6] . He became one of the first domestic Antarctic geologists. Name L.V. Klimova along with the names of M.G. Ravich , P.S. Voronova and D.S. Solovyov is especially distinguished among domestic scientists who conducted geological and geophysical work and research in the Arctic ^[7] . The documentary film “In the Antarctic” ( 1957 , dir. V. Yeshurin, N. Shmakov ^[8] ) was shot about the 2nd KAE.

L.V. Klimov worked at NIIGA for 11 years. He took part in six expeditions (second to seventh). In the 7th CAE, he headed a geological detachment, which landed on January 7, 1962 on the shore of Alasheeva Bay ^[9] . He carried out a detailed geological survey of the Mirny region, a reconnaissance study of a number of coastal regions of Antarctica, a small-scale survey of Enderby Land ^[1] .

In 1965 - 1967 he worked as an exchange scientist in the US Antarctic expedition. For his activities in it, he was awarded a medal for service in the Antarctic . The name of the scientist by the Americans was subsequently named one of the geographical objects of Antarctica - Klimov Utes . In 1967, he was even invited to give lectures on geology in the United States, but could not go "for reasons beyond his control" ^[1] . In the same year he left the service at NIIGA and transferred to the Institute of Precambrian of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , which had just been formed. The first director of the institute was a long-time friend Klimova - K.O. Kratz ^[4] .

According to the recollections of a number of colleagues L.V. Klimov had a conflict with M.G. Ravich, co-author of the book "Precambrian East Antarctica" and the leader of the Soviet school of Antarctic geology. Moreover, according to geologists V.A. Vinogradova and P.S. Voronov, Klimov as a scientist surpassed Ravich ^[4] . An important circumstance was the wintering of L.V. Klimov in 1966 at the American station and his personal communication with Werner von Braun and his subsequent work in the American Antarctic program on the set of Mary Baird’s Land (as a result of which the cliff was named in honor of Klimov by the Americans). O.G. Shulyatin calls this the reason Klimov left NIIGA, was unable to defend his dissertation, and did not go to lecture in the United States ^[4] .

In addition to applied resource topics, Lev Vladimirovich Klimov was engaged in the study of ancient crystalline rocks that underwent a granulite facies metamorphism . He collected during his lifetime a large collection of minerals. In 1972, a major scientific work entitled “Granulite facies of metamorphism” was published, in the writing of which Klimov took an active part. Also in the late 1970s, he wrote or co-authored a number of articles on this topic.

L.V. Klimov died on February 26, 1999 in St. Petersburg ( Krasnoselsky District , Sosnovaya Polyana District ).

Scientific Concept

L.V. Klimov was the author and co-author of a considerable number of articles and monographs. Together with M.G. Ravichem, P.S. Voronov, D.S. Soloviev and others, he was a “pioneer” in the field of geological exploration of the Antarctic ^[7] . Klimov, Ravich and Solovyov claimed that the conditions of regional metamorphism of the granulite facies dominated in the earth's crust, which at the end of the Archean gave way to superimposed transformations of the high-temperature amphibolite facies with the accompanying processes of polymetamorphism, rheomorphism, granitization , migmatization, and magmatic activity. In accordance with this concept and the ensuing idea of ​​the Archean “pan-Antarctic” craton , isotopic dates obtained by that time in the interval 500–400 Ma were interpreted exclusively as the result of thermal “rejuvenation” of ancient complexes ^[10] .

L.V. Klimov co-authored one of the five major monographs on Antarctic geology of the 1960s, Precambrian East Antarctica (with MG Ravich and DS Soloviev; 1965) ^[11] .

Major works

• Klimov L.V. On the position of iron ores in the stratigraphic diagram of the Aldan Precambrian // Transactions of the Inter-Soviet Union on the development of a unifier. stratigraph. schemes of Siberia, 1956.M.-L., 1958.P. 99-102
• Klimov L.V., Rabkin M.I. Anorthosites of the Anabar Shield // Transactions of NIIGA. L., 1959.V. 96. Issue. 8.P. 116-129: maps.
• Klimov L.V., Voronov P.S. Geological structure of the Mirny region // Soviet Antarctic Expedition 9. L., 1960. S. 185-196: ill.
• Klimov L.V. New information on the geology of East Antarctica // Materials on the Arctic and Antarctic (Summary of the report of the Polar Commission). 1961.
• Ravich M.G., Voronov P.S., Klimov L.V., Soloviev D.S. Geological exploration in the area of ​​Princess Astrid Coast // Transactions of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition. L., 1962.V. 20.P. 179-195.
• Klimov L.V. On the geological structure of Antarctica // SAE Newsletter. 1964. No. 47.
• Ravich M.G., Klimov L.V., Soloviev D.S. Precambrian East Antarctica. M .: Nedra, 1965.469 s.
• Kamenev E.N., Klimov L.V., Shulyatin O.G. Geological structure of Enderby Land and Prince Olaf Coast // Antarctica, Commission reports. M .: Nauka, 1968. P. 34–41.
• Klimov L.V. Charnockites // Granulite facies of metamorphism. L., 1972. S. 47-66: maps.
• Klimov L.V. Granulite metamorphism of high pressures in the Early Precambrian deep complexes of the Sutam type // Cyclicity and orientation of processes region. metamorphism. L., 1978.P. 33-56: ill.
• Krylova M.D., Klimov L.V. Fragments of early structures in the White Sea complex: primary nature, metamorphism, geochemistry // Processes of deep petrogenesis and mineralogy in the Precambrian of the USSR. L., 1979.P. 231-252: ill.

May 10, 1958 L.V. Klimov married Alexandra Maksimovna Filippova. The scientist’s wife was a swimmer , a silver medalist of the USSR championship, and then a swimming coach ^[4] . The only child in the family is daughter Tatyana Klimova, a graduate of the Faculty of Journalism of the Leningrad State University , in the 1990s - 2000s she was involved in political activities (deputy of the Leningrad City Council and the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly , deputy of the Uritsk MP, member of the Yabloko party ^[12] ), subsequently - journalist of the newspaper " Business Petersburg " ^[13] .