Yeskova, Evdokia Mikhailovna

Evdokia Mikhailovna Yeskova (born March 6, 1923 , the village of Donskoye , Shchigrovsky Uyezd , Kursk Province ) is a mineralogist, geochemist, and laureate of the USSR State Prize (1967).

Evdokia Mikhailovna Yeskova
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
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Scientific field	and
Alma mater	Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute S. Ordzhonikidze
Academic degree	Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences
Awards and prizes

Graduated from the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute. S. Ordzhonikidze (1946), worked as a junior researcher in the department of geochemistry of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences .

In 1953 he was transferred to the newly organized special laboratory “Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Rare Elements” (since 1956 - Institute of Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Crystal Chemistry of Rare Elements of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the USSR Ministry of Geology - IMGRE): in 1956-1958 - junior research fellow, in 1958 —1994 - Senior Researcher, specializing in the mineralogy of rare elements. Since 1994, retired.

Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1953; topic of the dissertation “Rare-metal minerals of rocks of the Lovozero alkaline massif and patterns of their distribution”).

Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1967; for participating in the work on the 3-volume collective monograph “Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Genetic Types of Rare Element Deposits”).

She was awarded the medal “For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the centenary of the birth of V. I. Lenin ”(1970),“ For the Defense of Moscow ”(1946), bronze medals of the All-Union Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR (1976, 1986), a memorial sign“ 300 years of the mining and geological service of Russia ”(2000 ) A student of subsoil exploration (1981, 1993).

Author and co-author of 9 scientific monographs , as well as articles and essays on the history of IMGRE.