Ryazanov, Vladimir Dmitrievich

V. D. Ryazanov was born in 1869 in St. Petersburg in the family of a bank clerk Dmitry Fedorovich Ryazanov and Ekaterina-Marianna Adolfovna Ryazanova, nee Caspari. In 1888 he entered the St. Petersburg Mining Institute , in 1893 he graduated from the first category. In his final year, he specialized in work in the mining and metallurgical industry (factory level). For two years he worked at the copper and steel plant of Major General A.S. Lavrov in Gatchina. Then he devoted himself entirely to the research work of a geological engineer.

In 1896, V. D. Ryazanov was seconded by the Main Mining Administration to the Administration for the Construction of the Siberian Railway , becoming an employee of the Circum-Baikal Mountain Party, the general management of which was carried out by the famous geologist, professor of the Mining Institute I.V. Mushketov . Participated in the study of a possible railway track along the Irkut River Valley.

Since 1898, the titular adviser, mining engineer V. D. Ryazanov was “sent to the Amur and Primorsky regions to carry out statistical, economic and technical studies of the local gold industry as an Assistant Party Chief” (the party’s leader was mining engineer L. L. Tove).

Since 1901, V. D. Ryazanov began working in the Irkutsk Mining Administration, which was in charge of a vast territory that united modern Baikal, Transbaikalia and the Far East. He is engaged in the study of various minerals: Cheremkhovsky coal, Yamarovsky mineral waters , oil (gas) manifestations on Lake Baikal. It was VD Ryazanov who laid the foundation for a systematic scientific search for oil in Siberia, built the first drilling rigs, and drilled the first oil wells. Every year, until 1907, traveled in the summer with students in search of oil. In 1902 he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav of the 3rd degree .

In 1904, V.A. Obruchev was invited to work at the Tomsk Technological Institute in the department of geology headed by that. He conducted practical classes in petrography, taught short courses in Physical Geology and Minerals for students of engineering, construction and chemical departments. Annually led student geological practices on Lake Baikal . On May 15, 1907, he left the Department of Geology to devote himself entirely to the work of assessing the oil potential of a promising area in the area of ​​the Selenga River Delta.

Until 1917, he conducted various geological studies, worked in various areas from Lake Onega to Chukotka . In 1910-11, he led the search for gold (a party from the Russian Gold Industry Society in the Amur Region ). In 1912, he surveyed the Abakan region, the mine and the Ratkov-Rozhnov plant and led the search and exploration of copper ores and coal in the same area. In 1913, he supervised the work on the examination and exploration of gold-bearing areas of the Gilyui Gold Industry Partnership (in the Zeya district of the Amur region). In the same year, on exploration of the Orenburg , Ufa , and Kungur lines, geological explorations were carried out along the railway line. In 1914, geological surveys and general areas of work of prospecting lots for gold on an expedition to the Chukchi Peninsula. In 1915, geological exploration of gold mines on Niman on an expedition equipped with the Siberian Trade Bank. On behalf of the Siberian Trade Bank and the Ministry of Finance, he organized an expedition to examine gold-bearing areas in Western China. In 1916, on behalf of the Strategic Committee of the Main Naval Headquarters, he drafted a water supply project for the Vladivostok Port . He made an examination of gold-bearing areas for the Amur Gold Mining Company in the Selemdzhinsky district. He examined the deposits of mineral paints and refractory clays near Vychegda .

In 1919, he was invited to the Moscow Mining Academy to the Exploration Department to work at the Department of Exploration and Formation Minerals as a professor. One of the first in the country in 1921-1925 he began to give lectures on the new course "Exploration." In addition, he conducted practical classes for students, conducted course design for exploration and supervised theses. At the mining faculty of the Moscow State University, he headed the department of Gold and Platinum, where he taught the General Course on the exploitation of gold and platinum deposits. He did a lot of work in the Institute of Intelligence Affairs of the Moscow State Academy headed by him.

In addition to teaching work at the Academy, VD Ryazanov was engaged in applied research at the Litogey Institute since November 1920 (today - the All-Russian Research Institute of Mineral Raw Materials named after N. M. Fedorovsky ). In particular, he exported the Vyatka antimony gold deposit, searched for cinnabar and platinum (Ural, 1921); conducted exploration of the Gamskoy siderite deposit and the search for gold (Komi Republic, 1922); estimated the Zhuravlinskoye bauxite deposit (Cisurals, 1923); performed design and field work on the instructions of the "Special Commission for the Study of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly."

At the last facility, he invented and introduced two original instruments that allow measuring the curvature of wellbores (clinometer) and determining the elements of occurrence of drilled formations (stratameter). The stratameter was used in the summer of 1924 in the last field work of V. D. Ryazanov, carried out in the Shchigrovsky district of the KMA. As Professor B. I. Vozdvizhensky, a leading specialist at the Moscow Polytechnic Institute for Drilling, noted in his memoirs, the instruments developed by V. D. Ryazanov provided "... substantial assistance in studying the structure of KMA iron ore deposits."

He died on December 7, 1925 in Moscow after a serious illness.

• Description of the training collection of rocks of the geological office. TTI. Per. with him. V. D. Ryazanov, ed. V.A. Obrucheva. Tomsk Steam tip-lit. P.I. Makushina, 1906.-242p.
• Ryazanov V. D. Probable geological structure of the Zyrkuzun ridge at the intersection of its tunnel designed for the Circum-Baikal Railway in 1895-96 // Mountain Journal. 1898, vol. 1, book 2, p. 188-195.
• Ryazanov V.D. A note on the Irkutsk coal-bearing basin. // Izv. Howls. - Sib. Sep. RGO. 1902, t. ЗЗ, No. 2, p. 1-30.
• Tove L. L., Ryazanov V. D. Report on the statistical-economic and technical study of the gold industry of the Amur-Primorsky region. T. I (Primorsky region), S.-P., Tipolithography Anchor, 1902. - 632s.
• Ryazanov V. D. Report on the statistical, economic and technical study of the gold industry of the Amur-Primorsky district. T. II (Amur Region). S.- Pb., Tipolithography Anchor. 1903–932 p.
• Ryazanov V. D. Abstract of physical geology. TTI. (Lectures of chemical and engineering building, departments). Tomsk Type lithogr. Sib. t-va print business. 1909.- 270s.
• Ryazanov V. D. Signs of copper ores in the Achinsk district of the Yenisei lips. // Ore messenger. 1916, t.1, No. 4, p. 182-183.
• Ryazanov V.D. On deposits of iron and copper ores near the Abakan plant.// Ore bulletin. 1917, t. 2, No. 2, p. 49-59.
• Ryazanov V.D., Markov P.N. Report on geological exploration of the Ural expedition of 1923. // Proceedings of the Institute app. mineralogy and metallurgy. 1926, no. 19, p. 7-43.
• Ryazanov V.D., Rusinov L.A. Stratameter used in drilling operations in the Shchigrovsky district. // Proceedings of OK KMA. 1926, no. IX, p. 180-190.
• Ryazanov V.D. Ozokerite and oil deposits in the Baikal region. // Materials on geology and PI D. Vostok. 1928, No. 19. - p. 37.
• Ryazanov V.D., Markov P.N. Exploration business. M., MGA, 1929 .-- 101 p.

• Professor Vladimir Dmitrievich Ryazanov. // Mountain Journal. 1927, No. 2, p. 123-124.
• Yaskovsky P.P. Paths of the mountain engineer V.D. Ryazanov // Fundamental problems of geology of mineral deposits and metallogeny: XXI Intern. scientific Conf. The 100th anniversary of academician V.I. Smirnov; Moscow, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonomsov, January 26-28, 2010: Proceedings: In 2 volumes; Volume 1. M .: MAKS Press, 2010. S. 260—272.
• Ryazanov V.D. in the Siberian Soviet Encyclopedia.
• Page of V. D. Ryazanov in the Irkopedia.ru project.
• Page V. D. Ryazanov on the website of the Tomsk Polytechnic University.
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