Koronovsky, Nikolai Vladimirovich

Born on July 4, 1933 in the city of Leningrad ^[2] .

In 1956 he graduated with honors from the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University . He stayed to work at the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University. He gave lectures on the courses “Structural Geology and Geological Mapping”, “Historical Geology”, “Geology of the USSR”, “General Geology”, “Tectonics and Magmatism”, “Planet Earth” (for masters). He participated in the Crimean geological practice for students.

In 1964, he defended his Ph.D. (was devoted to the Pliocene-Quaternary volcanism of the Greater Caucasus), and in 1980 he got his doctoral dissertation (subject: “Cenozoic volcanism of the Alpine belt of Eurasia”) in the field of geological and mineralogical sciences, in 1986 he was awarded the title of professor .

Since 1986 - Head of the Department of Dynamic Geology, Geological Faculty, Moscow State University.

His research interests are regional geology and geological survey, orogenic volcanism and its relationship with tectonics and geodynamics.

Engaged in regional geology, neotectonics, structural geology, seismotectonics, collisional magmatism. The main scientific results were obtained on orogenic volcanism of the Alpine belt of Eurasia, and especially of the Caucasus and the Carpathians, where for the first time a detailed stratigraphy of volcanogenic sequences, their tectonic position, connection with geodynamics was revealed. It was established that it was the sub-meridional compression of the Caucasus, due to the northward protrusion of the Arabian plate, which caused the presence of meridionally oriented stretch zones and stretch stretch sites, which are associated with calc-alkaline volcanism, first distinguished into a special - collisional type. A similar pattern was established for the entire Alpine belt, with the exception of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Cycladic island arc in the Aegean Sea. A weighty achievement was the solution of the problem of acid ignimbrites for many regions of the Alpine belt, including the identification of the distribution of these rocks, the establishment of their genesis. Much attention was paid to the study of the development and formation of the modern structure of advanced troughs, including the Terek-Caspian, where the rootless nature of anticlinal folds was first established and the mechanism of their formation was identified in the context of the regional development of the Caucasus.

He pays a lot of attention to the issues of neotectonics, seismotectonics, the problem of modeling “blind” thrusts and breakdown zones in the strata of different competencies, as well as the use of remote sensing methods to solve the problems of neotectonics.

He has lectured at universities in Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Mexico, Germany, Bulgaria, Canada, Hungary and others, the oil companies of Israel and the USA. He has compiled a geology program for schools, published a book for schoolchildren “Geology is Interesting,” and with his participation and under his editors published the volume “Geology” of the Children's Encyclopedia.

Under his leadership, defended 18 master's and 3 doctoral dissertations ^{[ when? ]} .

• 1993 - Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation
• 1994 - Diploma and title “Soros professor in the field of earth sciences” awarded, November 20, 1994
• 1996 - Prize named after A. Archangelsky , for a series of works on regional geology
• 2003 - Honorary intelligence officer of the subsoil of the Russian Federation
• 2006 - Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation
• 2007 - Winner of the Lomonosov Prize ^[3] .

• Member of the CPSU
• Member of the Presidium of UMO ^{[ clarify ]} for higher geological education of the Russian Federation, chairman of the UMO section in the specialty "Geology".
• Member of the Bureau of the Tectonic Committee of Russia.
• Member of the Academic Council of the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University.
• Member of 2 specialized councils at Moscow State University and at the University "Dubna".
• Member of the editorial board of the journals "Geotectonics" and "Bulletin of Moscow University." Geology series.

In 1991, under his leadership, a neotectonic map of the European part of the USSR and the surrounding territories on a scale of 1: 2,500,000 was compiled.

Editor and author of the “Crimean geological practice” manual, author of a number of educational geological maps, curricula and programs, teaching materials. He is the author of several sections and a scientific editor in various encyclopedias, including the Mountain Encyclopedia, articles in the journal Nature, the anthology Earth and People, and others.

Author of more than 300 scientific papers ^[4] , among them monographs:

• "Orogenic volcanism and tectonics of the Alpine belt of Eurasia" (co-author E. E. Milanovsky , 1973)
• "A short course of regional geology of the USSR" (1976, 1984)
• "Fundamentals of Geology" (co-authored by A. F. Yakushev, 1991)
• "General Geology" (2006, 2009)
• "Geology for mining" (co-authored with V. I. Starostin and V. V. Avdonin)
• “Geology” (co-authored with N. A. Yasamanov, 5 editions, 2008)
• “Historical Geology” (co-authored with V. E. Khain and N. A. Yasamanov , 3 editions, 2008)
• “Planet Earth from the nucleus to the ionosphere” (co-authored with V. Ye. Khain ) (2007)

• Koronovsky, Nikolai Vladimirovich on the official website of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Koronovskiy N.V. (Neopr.) . istina.msu.ru. The date of circulation is January 12, 2017. in the system of TRUE MSU .
• Koronovskiy N.V. (Neopr.) . dynamo.geol.msu.ru. The date of circulation is January 12, 2017.