Aleksandr Kirillovich Matveev (September 5 (17), 1895, Omsk - February 12, 1991, Moscow [1] ) - a geologist- coal miner, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1972), Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1962), professor of the Department of Geology and Combustible Geochemistry Fossil Geological Faculty of Moscow State University (1962-1980), Professor Consultant (1980), Deputy. Dean of the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University for Scientific Work (1955-1962), General Director of the Geological Service of the III rank (1947), Chairman of the Technical Council of the Mingeo of the USSR (1946-1947), member of the Councils for the defense of doctoral and candidate dissertations at the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University, College of Mingeo of the USSR , Scientific and Technical Council of the Mingeo of the USSR and the RSFSR, the Scientific Council of the Geological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the Presidium of the geological section of the NTO mining, geological section for Lenin and State Prizes at the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1969-1975), editor of VINITI, honorary member Geological Island of Bulgaria (1968). He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1948), two orders of the Badge of Honor (1944, 1965).
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Biography
Born in a family of petty bourgeois; in 1916 he graduated from the Peter and Paul Real School and entered the Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk) Mining Institute. From the institute, as a volunteer I class, he was enrolled in the Odessa Artillery Military School, after which he was sent to the Northern Front, where he was until his liquidation in February 1918. After being demobilized from the army, he went to work at the militia plant "Asia" in Kulomzino as a driver , then a technician (1919-1920). In 1920, he was reinstated as a student at the Yekaterinoslav Mining Institute, which he graduated in 1924; at the same time was a rural teacher. After graduating from the institute, he works as the head of the Donugl exploration party (1924-1928), then the geologist of the Geological Committee (1928-1930), the head of the Sibugol exploration department (1930-1931), associate professor of the Moscow Engineering Research Institute (1931-1934) and at the same time the consultant of the Main Geological and Geodetic Directorate at Supreme Economic Council of the USSR, geologist VSEGEI (1934-1942), senior engineer of the Committee on Geology of the USSR (1942-1945). In March 1945, he was sent to the Soviet military administration to Germany as lieutenant colonel, where he remained until 1946. From 1946 to 1947, he was head of the Glavka Mingeo of the USSR, member of the board, chairman of the Technical Council. From 1947 to 1951 - Chief Engineer of the Karaganda Geological Department; in 1952-1953 - Senior geologist at the Laboratory of Coal Geology, USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. In 1954 he transferred to the geological faculty of Moscow State University, first as an assistant professor, and since 1962 - professor of the department of geology and geochemistry of fossil fuels, where he organized a coal cabinet and trained specialists in the coal specialty. In 1980, he transferred to the position of professor consultant.
Published over 300 scientific papers. The main research area is coal geology; solved a number of critical issues of coal geology, established the principles for identifying coal-bearing provinces of the USSR and neighboring countries, developed a classification of coal-bearing basins and identified a new atectonic type of coal deposits, investigated the composition of coal with ultrasound, developed a methodology for compiling forecast maps for coal of the USSR; under his editorship, maps were published: “Forecast of Coals of the USSR” (1941, 1954), “Coal Deposits of the World” (1972, 1974), “Oil and Gas Content and Carboniferousness of the Pacific Mobile Belt and the Pacific Ocean” (1978). He wrote the textbook “Geology of Coal Deposits of the USSR” (1960) and four large monographs devoted to the coal deposits of Eurasia, Australia and Oceania, Africa, America and Antarctica, and a summary of “Coal Basins and Deposits of Foreign Countries”.
At Moscow University, he taught courses "Fundamentals of the Geology of Combustible Minerals", "Geology of Coal Deposits and Pools of the USSR", "Coal Pools and Fields of Foreign Countries".
Among his students are Yu. R. Mazor, N.O. Pogrebnov, Yu. V. Stepanov, V.M. Zhelinsky, V.F. Cherepovsky.
An urn with ashes was buried in the columbarium of the Don cemetery .
Notes
- ↑ Matveev Alexander Kirillovich / G.P. Khomizuri // Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vol.] / Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov . - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2004—2017.