Pavel Eduardovich Zurkov (November 5, 1906, Kharkov - May 3, 1968, Magnitogorsk ) - Soviet scientist in the field of mining, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1958), Professor (1959) [1] .
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He is the author of more than 200 publications on open pit mining, blasting, mining explosive seismic. He had a great influence on the development of open mining in the Urals.
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Biography
Born on November 5 ( November 18 in a new style) in Kharkov in 1906 in the family of a locksmith worker [2] .
In 1918 he graduated from three classes of elementary school. From the age of 13 he worked as a farm laborer for a prosperous peasant, a student in bookbinding, and was a student of a locksmith in the village of Smolensk. In 1923-1924 he worked in Biysk in a private workshop and at the same time studied in evening school. In 1924-1927 he continued his studies at the Biysk vocational school, having received the profession of a tractor tractor-installer. In 1927, the Komsomol city committee was sent to study at Tomsk State University , in 1929 it was transferred to the Siberian Technological Institute ( Tomsk ), and in 1931 transferred to the Sverdlovsk Mining Institute . Along with training, he worked in the mines of Krivoy Rog , at the Uralugol plant and the Magnitogorsk mine [2] .
In 1933 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Mining Institute with a degree in mining engineering and was immediately appointed by the General Directorate of Educational Institutions (GUUZ) as deputy director and teacher of the Turin Mining College. In 1934 he entered the Sverdlovsk Mining Institute and in 1939 he defended his thesis on the topic “Analysis of the conditions for the use of dead-end, spiral races and inclined lifts of high productivity”. In 1939-1941, he worked at the State Geological Institute as an assistant, associate professor of the department of ore mining. In 1942-1943 he worked in the Tagilstroy mining department and was also an assistant professor, head of the mining department of the Krivoy Rog Mining Institute , evacuated to Nizhny Tagil during the Great Patriotic War . Then, by an order of the GUUZ in 1944, Pavel Zurkov was transferred to the Nizhny Tagil Industrial Institute as the head of one of the departments and the dean of the mining and metallurgical faculty.
After the war ended, in 1947, P.E. Zurkov was sent to Magnitogorsk to work at the Magnitogorsk Mining and Metallurgical Institute , where he worked until the end of his life. In 1958, at the Institute of Mining of the USSR Academy of Sciences, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Basic issues of the open mining of useful ores of complex composition" and in 1959 he was approved as a professor.
He died on May 3, 1968 in Magnitogorsk, where he was buried [3] .
In 1961, Zurkov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, in 1962 he was awarded the title “Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR” [2] .
The State Archives of the Perm Territory contains documents related to P.E. Zurkov [4] .
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Sources
- Zurkov Pavlo Eduardovich // Prof. KGRI-KTU / Kriviy Rig: Vidavnichy dim KNU, 2012. - 190 p. - S. 68. ISBN 978-966-2775-04-4 . (Ukrainian)