Priklonsky, Victor Alexandrovich

Born on January 26 (February 7), 1899 in Moscow, in a family of high school teachers.

Father shortly before his death (1914) received a personal nobility, which did not apply to family members.

In 1916, he graduated from the 10th Moscow Gymnasium with a silver medal.

From 1916 to 1920 - studied at the 1st Moscow University, Faculty of Social Sciences (ethnological-linguistic department), combining studies with a teacher at first-level schools in the Zamoskvoretsky district of Moscow.

From October 1919 to May 1920, he was a private soldier of the 1st Western Rifle Regiment of the Moscow Military District in the Red Army.

After the service, he was sent to the Moscow Mining Academy , which he graduated in 1928 (exploration department). The thesis entitled "The geological structure of the Milsky steppe and the adjacent part of Nagorno-Karabakh and their water availability" was recognized by the Qualification Commission as a serious scientific work. During his studies at the academy, he began working as a collector, then as a geologist in film sets.

From 1925 to 1930, he worked in Transcaucasia, first as the head of the hydrological party of the STO Commission for the Survey of the Caucasus, then as a senior geologist of the Office for the Compilation of a Water Plan under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.

In 1930, he moved to a permanent job at the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute , where he went from assistant to professor (1950-1959) of the Department of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, Dean of the Department of Geology at the Moscow Polytechnic Institute (1932-1935).

In 1931-1932, he supervised the geological, hydrogeological and engineering-geological work along the Moscow Canal route as the head of the complex expedition of the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute.

In 1935, he was awarded the degree of candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences without defending a dissertation on the proposal of the Geological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

In 1934, in connection with the relocation of institutions of the USSR Academy of Sciences to Moscow, he was invited to work at the Geological Institute as a scientific specialist in the hydrogeology department. After the liquidation of this department, he was approved by the scientific secretary of the Commission for Hydrogeology at the Department of Geological and Geographical Sciences (1939-1943), and from 1944 to 1957 (after the liquidation of the Commission) he was a senior researcher at the Laboratory of Hydrogeological Problems at the Department of Geological and Geographical Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

During the Great Patriotic War, he first worked in the Bureau of Military Geology under the Moscow Soviet, and then Semipalatinsk acted as assistant professor of the Moscow Engineering Research Institute. He performed a large amount of work on the construction of defensive structures in Moscow.

In 1950, he defended his doctoral dissertation, topic: “The main modern problems of soil science”, and in 1951 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences.

The subject of the scientist's work in the Laboratory was connected with the study of the hydrogeological conditions of arid areas and problems of soil science. From 1955 - deputy director, and from 1957 until the end of his life - director of the Laboratory of Hydrogeological Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

In 1958, he was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

He died on February 13, 1959 in Moscow. He was buried at Danilovsky cemetery .

The main works are devoted to hydrogeology and engineering geology.

He proposed an engineering-geological classification of rocks and a scheme for the sequential formation of engineering-geological properties of sedimentary rocks, established a number of patterns of diffusion of salts in clay rocks, which is important for solving the problem of the formation of groundwater and clay sediments.

He developed a new direction in the study of geotechnical properties of rocks.

During the 1930s - 1940s, he participated in numerous expeditions of the USSR State Planning Commission and five-year construction projects as an expert (hydroelectric facilities on the Volga, Kama, Don, Oka, Kura and other rivers, Volga-Moscow and Volga-Don canals, Manych Canal , irrigated lands of Transcaucasia, during the construction of the Moscow Metro and the Palace of Soviets, and so on).

At the Moscow Polytechnic Institute he gave lecture courses in hydrogeology and engineering geology, and also supervised the training of graduate students.

He introduced a new lecture course, “Soil Science,” published in 1943, which highlighted the properties of clay rocks in terms of colloidal chemical representations, rather than capillary theory, as was previously accepted.

• Brother - Anatoly
• Sister - Love
• Wife - Evgenia Pavlovna Priklonskaya
• Daughter - Irina Viktorovna

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1951)
• Prize named after F. P. Savarensky (1952) - for his work: "Soil Science". Part I, "Geological foundations of soil science", t.to. I and II and “Engineering and geological characteristics of genetic types and rock complexes”
• Stalin Prize for outstanding inventions and radical improvements in the methods of production work (third degree, in the field of construction, as part of a group, for 1952) - for the creation of a methodological guide for engineering and geological research for hydropower construction
• Medal "For the Defense of Moscow" (1944)
• Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" (1945)
• Medal "In memory of the 800th anniversary of Moscow" (1946)

• Priklonsky, Victor Alexandrovich on the official website of the RAS
• Priklonsky Victor Alexandrovich (IS ARAN) (neopr.) . isaran.ru. Date of appeal April 19, 2017.
• Priklonsky Victor Alexandrovich (Chronicle of Moscow University) (neopr.) . letopis.msu.ru. Date of appeal April 19, 2017.