Zinaida Petrovna Semenova (1903-1978) - geologist of the Karaganda coal basin.
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Biography
Born in 1903 in Porkhov (now the Pskov region ). Father is an employee of the Zemstvo administration, mother is a housewife.
Graduated from the Agricultural Institute of Agriculture , Faculty of Agronomy (1925). She worked at the Research Institute of Applied Botany.
Since 1928, a researcher at the Laboratory of Mechanical Analysis of the Geological Committee, then a geologist at the Leningrad Institute of Non-Metallic Minerals. Without interruption from production, she graduated from continuing education courses at the Leningrad Mining Institute, specializing in geologist-petrograph.
Since the spring of 1931 she worked in Karaganda. Since 1934, heading the Eastern Geological Prospecting Party, she was engaged in exploration of the upper horizons of the Industrial Area of the coal basin. The research results were presented in the scientific work “Lithological description of the section of the Karaganda coal basin” (1936).
In the second half of the 1930s, it conducted exploration of the Saransk and Churubay-Nurinsky sections of the basin, as well as the Kuu-Chekinskoye coal deposit.
From 1940 to 1949, a geologist, senior geologist and chief engineer of the Karaganda exploration party of the Kazakhuglegeologiya trust. Participant in the opening of the Tenteksky coal-bearing region.
The last position (since 1952) is the chief geologist of the Karagandaugol plant, the largest in the coal industry. Member of the Supreme Council of the KSSR 3-4 convocations.
She died in 1978 in Karaganda .
Awards and Prizes
- Stalin Prize of the Third Degree (1948) - for geological research, which ensured the discovery of new coking coal sites in the Karaganda coal basin
- medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."