Yuri Abramovich Volozh (born 1938) - geologist , specialist in the oil fields of the Caspian Sea and one of the discoverers of the Kashagan field, winner of the N. S. Shatsky Prize (2015).
| Yuri Abramovich Volozh | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | March 30, 1938 (81 years old) |
| A country |  USSR → |
| Scientific field | geology |
| Place of work | Institute of Geological Sciences, Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR , Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Alma mater | Kazakh State University |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1990) |
| Awards and prizes |  Prize named after N. S. Shatsky (2015) |
Son - Arkady Yurievich Volozh (1964) - co-founder and CEO of Yandex.
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Biography
Born March 30, 1938.
In 1959, he graduated from the Geological Department of the Kazakh State University , then worked in geophysical organizations of the USSR Ministry of Geology in Kazakhstan and Belarus.
In 1971, he defended his thesis on the history of the formation of the Caspian basin.
Since 1973, he began working as a chief geologist in the regional research laboratory of the Kazakh branch of the All-Union Institute of Exploratory Geophysics (VIRG), where he was engaged in the interpretation of deep seismic studies and continued to study sedimentary basins.
From 1977 to 1991, he organized and headed the first seismic stratigraphy laboratory in the USSR at the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR .
In 1990 - defended his doctoral dissertation, topic: "Sedimentary basins of Western Kazakhstan" (based on seismic stratigraphic analysis).
From 1991 to the present, he has been working as a chief researcher at the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
Scientific activity
He is the author of more than a hundred scientific papers on the geological structure and oil and gas potential of various regions, as well as on the methodology of geological interpretation of geophysical materials, as well as four monographs, a number of consolidated tectonic maps and maps of the prospects of oil and gas potential in Kazakhstan and the former Soviet Union.
One of the creators of the unique international Atlas of paleogeographic and palinspastic maps of Central Asia.
Under his leadership, a new model of the structure of the Astrakhan carbonate massif was developed, predicting the possibility of opening large oil deposits here.
According to his recommendations, in the south of the Caspian Depression, the West Astrakhan gas field in the Astrakhan region and the Khongr gas field in Kalmykia were discovered.
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Geotectonics".
Rewards
- The Pioneer of the Field sign (1990) - for the discovery of the Kumkol gas and oil field
- N. Shatsky Prize (together with T. N. Kheraskova , M. P. Antipov , 2015) - for a series of works devoted to the study of the deep structure of the East European platform (monograph: “Astrakhan carbonate massif: structure and oil and gas potential” and “Orenburg Tectonic Knot: Geological Structure and Oil and Gas”)
- Gazprom Prize (2010) - for a set of works and recommendations for the Astrakhan Region
Links
- Volozh, Yuri Abramovich on the official website of the RAS
- Yuri Abramovich Volozh . sedbas.ginras.ru. Date of treatment May 4, 2017.
- Yuri Abramovich Volozh is 75 years old. The journal "Geotectonics" . naukarus.com. Date of treatment May 4, 2017.