Pavel Aleksandrovich Pravoslavlev (1873-1941) - Russian and Soviet geologist , paleontologist . Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1935) [1] .
| Pavel Alexandrovich Pravoslavlev | |
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| Date of Birth | October 4 (16), 1873 |
| Place of Birth | next Rakhinka , Tsarevsky Uyezd , Astrakhan Province , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | October 12, 1941 (67 years old) |
| A place of death | Leningrad , USSR |
| A country |  Russian Empire →  the USSR |
| Scientific field | geology , paleontology |
| Place of work | Leningrad University |
| Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences |
| Academic rank | Professor |
| supervisor | V.P. Amalitsky |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 memory
- 3 Works
- 4 notes
- 5 Literature
Biography
Pavel Pravoslavlev was born on October 4 (16), 1873 in the village of Rakhinka (now Sredneahtubinsk district of the Volgograd region ) [2] in the family of a priest. He graduated from Astrakhan Theological Seminary [3] . He entered the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Warsaw (Department of Natural Sciences). After graduating from the university in 1898, he remained at the Department of Geology as a scholarship holder with Professor V.P. Amalitsky , was a laboratory assistant at the geological office. In the years 1906-1908 he traveled with a business trip to Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France. In 1909, at the University of Warsaw he defended his thesis for a master's degree in mineralogy and geognosy on the topic “Materials for the knowledge of the Lower Volga Caspian deposits”, after which he was appointed professor of geology at the Don Polytechnic Institute [4] in Novocherkassk . From 1913 to 1924 - professor at the Military Medical Academy in Petrograd [2] . Since 1924 - Head of the Department of Historical Geology at Leningrad University [4] . In 1934, the Higher Attestation Commission approved Pravoslavtseva to the degree of Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy without defending a dissertation.
He died on October 12, 1941 in the besieged Leningrad [2] [5] . He was buried at the Shuvalovsky cemetery [3] .
Pravoslavlev studied mainly the geology of the Volga region and the Caspian region . He studied the stratigraphy of the upper tertiary and post-tertiary deposits [2] . He described a number of Paleozoic vertebrates and Neogene mollusks. Published 59 scientific papers [3] .
Memory
In honor of P. A. Pravoslavlev, a fossil animal of Orthodoxy was named [6] - a small gorgonops from the Late Permian of the Arkhangelsk region. Described by Pravoslavlev in 1927 as a species of foreigners and singled out as a separate genus in 1953.
Compositions
- Geological observations in the Tsarevsky district of the Astrakhan province // Transactions of the Warsaw Society of Naturalists. - Warsaw, 1899.
- Geological observations on the right bank of the Volga river, between Kamyshin and Kamenny Yar // Tr. Warsaw about-va natural scientists. - Warsaw, 1900.
- On the nature of the Aral-Caspian formations of the Lower Volga // Transactions of the Warsaw Society of Naturalists: Minutes of the meetings. - Warsaw, 1900.
- To the knowledge of the geological structure of Lake Elton // Izv. Warsaw un-that. - Warsaw, 1901/1902.
- To the geology of the surroundings of Lake Baskunchak / P. Pravoslavlev; From the geol. cab. Warsaw un-that. - Warsaw: type. Warsaw textbook. okr., 1903. - [4], 148 p., 4 p. silt : tab., devil., pl .; 23. [7]
- Remains of a young plesiosaurus from the Upper Cretaceous sediments of the Liski river basin of the Don region // Ann. by geol. and miner. Of Russia. T. 17, No. 1. - St. Petersburg, 1915.
- Elasmosaurus from the Upper Cretaceous sediments of the Don Region // Tr. Imp. Petrograd. about-va naturalist. T. 38, no. 5. - Pg .: 1916.S. 1-5.
- Pravoslavlev. Northwest coast of the Caspian. Izv. Tsentr.gif.-met.byuro, vol. 8, 1929.
- Traces of fossilized mud hills near Lake Elton and hills in N. Zavolzhye // Tr. Leningra. about natural sciences., Dep. Geol. and miner., 1939/1940.
Notes
- ↑ Professors of the A.I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University in the XX century: a biographical reference book . Publishing house of RSU A.I. Herzen, 2000
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Pravoslavlev Pavel Aleksandrovich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
- ↑ 1 2 3 S.N. Monikov. Geologist from Rahinka . Bulletin of the Volgograd branch of the Russian Geographical Society (October 2013). Date of treatment January 17, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Contribution to the history of geological sciences, Volumes 4-6. Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1955
- ↑ Leningrad University during the Great Patriotic War . journal.spbu.ru (May 7, 2010). Date of treatment January 17, 2016.
- ↑ Orlov Yu.A. In the world of ancient animals. Essays on vertebrate paleontology. 2nd Edition. M. Science 1968, 212 p.
- ↑ Pravoslavlev, Pavel Aleksandrovich - On the geology of the environs of Lake Baskunchak / . Russian State Library .
Literature
- Kuznetsov S. S. Researcher of the geology of the lower Volga and the Caspian (In memory of Prof. P. A. Pravoslavlev), “Uch. app. LSU. Geological Series ”, 1950, c. 1, No. 102.
- Monikov S. N. Geologist from Rakhinka // In the book. "Golden Lake". Historical and geographical essays. - 3rd ed. - fix - Volgograd: State University "Publisher", 2003. S. 80-93.