Nikolai Mikhailovich Aksyonov ( 1899 - 1978 ) - Soviet mining engineer-geologist, director of the geological service of the II rank; discoverer of Verblyuzhegorsky ( South Ural ) and Gologorsk ( Middle Urals ) chromite deposits.
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| Date of Birth | December 7, 1899 | ||
| Place of Birth | Krasnoyarsk village, Russian empire | ||
| Date of death | August 14, 1978 (aged 78) | ||
| A place of death | Sverdlovsk , RSFSR , USSR | ||
| Citizenship |  the USSR | ||
| Nationality |  Russian empire | ||
| Occupation | mining engineer, geologist | ||
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Awards and titles
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Born on December 7, 1899 in a village of the Krasnoyarsk Russian Empire, now the Mishkinsky District of the Kurgan Region [1] , in a peasant family.
In 1930 he graduated from the exploration department of the Ural Polytechnic Institute , after which until 1939 he worked in the Ural exploration trust and Soyuzkhromit trust - he directed exploration of the Verblyuzhegorsky and Gologorsky chromite deposits in the Urals. In those same years, under his technical guidance (with the participation of A. N. Zavaritsky ), major geological exploration work was completed to create an iron ore base for the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works being created. [2]
In the following years 1939-1947, Aksyonov worked in the system of the Ural Geological Administration - in 1940 he explored the Kalinichevsky deposit of nickel-containing iron ores in the Middle Urals; in 1941-1942 he was the chief engineer of the Verkh-Neivinskaya, then the Zlatoust exploration parties of the Uralgeol administration; In 1943-1947 he was a senior engineer at the Department of State Geological Control. From 1947 to 1950, he geologically supervised the work of the Uralchermetrazvedka trust and the Kachkanarsky expedition (participated in a prospective assessment of the Kachkanarsky deposit of vanadium-containing titanomagnetites). Then, over the next ten years, until retiring in 1960, he worked at the Ural Geological and Expeditionary Expedition of the Ural Geological Administration, summarizing the accumulated materials on copper and bauxite deposits of the Urals. N. M. Aksyonov became the author of 18 geological reports, including seven on chromites. [one]
He died on August 14, 1978 in Sverdlovsk, was buried at the cityβs Shirokorechensky cemetery . His son Alexander (1941-1993) was a universal fitter at the Institute of Chemistry of the Ural Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. [3]
Awards and titles
- He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1950) and medals, including "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" (1946).
- In 1941, he received a commendation sheet from the Committee on Geology at the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.
- In 1948, Aksyonov was awarded the personal title of Director of the Geological Survey of the II rank.