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Voinovsky-Krieger, Konstantin Genrikhovich

Konstantin Genrikhovich Voinoevsky-Krieger ( December 3 [15], 1894 , Vilna - March 2, 1979 , Alma-Ata [1] ) - Soviet scientist- geologist , paleontologist [2] ; one of the organizers of the geological service of Vorkuta [3] .

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Content

  • 1 Biography
    • 1.1 Family
  • 2 Scientific activities
    • 2.1 Selected Works
  • 3 Hobbies
  • 4 Awards
  • 5 Addresses
  • 6 Memory
  • 7 Comments
  • 8 Notes
  • 9 Literature
  • 10 Links

Biography

Born in 1894 in Vilna . He graduated from high school in Vladivostok . In 1913 he entered the Institute of Railway Engineers ( St. Petersburg ). In 1916 he was called up for military service. After graduating from the school of warrant officers of engineering troops, he served in the Far East - as the head of the subversive team of the 3rd Zaamursky railway battalion [4] .

In 1918-1921 he worked in military and party organizations of Vladivostok. Since January 1920 - Head of the Political Department of the Military Council of the Provisional Government of the Primorsky Regional Zemstvo Council [4] (Deputy Chairman of the Military Council since March 1920 - Sergey Lazo ).

In 1921 he returned to Petrograd . In 1927 he graduated from the Leningrad Mining Institute ; at the same time since 1924 he was engaged in paleontology at the Geological Committee, later becoming a major specialist in Paleozoic corals. He worked at the Geolcom . In 1928 he got acquainted with paleontological materials in Germany , Belgium and France [1] [4] . After returning from a business trip on May 5, 1929, he was arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison [5] with the right to work in the specialty [4] under the decision of the OGPU Board under paragraph 4 of Article 58 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR [K 1 ] . He served his sentence in Ukhtpechlag [5] : on February 13, 1930, he was on the Ukhta expedition of the OGPU (geological department led by N. N. Tikhonovich [4] ) in the Pechora coal-bearing basin and in the Polar Urals ; in 1931 he discovered on the middle Pechora a coal deposit Ezhyd-Kyrta [1] [6] [7] . He was released early in 1932 [1] [K 2] , worked as a senior geologist at the mine in Ejid-Kirt [1] with transfer to a colony settlement [4] . October 25, 1934 founded the Geological Museum in Vorkuta [3] [K 3] . Since 1936, he was a senior geologist at the Ust-Usinsky branch of the Ukhtpechlag (in December 1937 it was transformed into Vorkutlag ) [1] . Created a geological school of retraining in geology; many of her listeners became famous geologists [4] .

In 1938-1957 he worked as the head of the exploration department of Vorkutpechstroy, the head of the research department, and the chief engineer of a comprehensive geological exploration expedition [1] . In 1938, K. G. Voynovsky-Krieger and the team headed by him became the discoverers of the largest coal deposit in the Vorgashorsky basin [7] . In 1953, his criminal record was withdrawn [7] .

Since 1957, he has been a professor at the Kazakh Mining and Metallurgical Institute in Almaty [1] . Suddenly died of a stroke on March 2, 1979 [8] .

Family

Father - Heinrich ( Heinrich-Oscar ) Bronislavovich Voinovsky-Krieger (10.17.1867 - 1.6.1920, Luga), Major General (1916), General for the instructions of the Main Military Technical Directorate (from 19.3.1914) [9] [10 ] ] ; mother - Evgenia Konstantinovna (nee Trezhaskovskaya), daughter of an officer [10] .

The father’s brother is Eduard Bronislavovich [10] (1864-1933), a railway engineer, and the Minister of Railways of the Russian Empire (1916-1917).

Wife (since 1925) - Irina Aleksandrovna Voynovskaya-Krieger (? - 6.7.1980, Alma-Ata), her husband was a cousin; general practitioner [8] . She followed her husband in the very first years of her imprisonment, leaving her 3-year-old daughter with her parents; spent 26 years in the North (1930-1956); in 1938 she was arrested on a denunciation, spent six months in custody in Ukhta [11] .

Daughter - Ksenia Konstantinovna Voinovskaya-Krieger (born 1926); from 1933 to 1944 she lived with her parents in the North [12] ; in 1949 she graduated from the biology faculty of Moscow State University , in 1952 - graduate school at the Institute of Biochemistry. A.N. Bakh, Academy of Sciences of the USSR (lead. - Prof. A. A. Krasnovsky ); Candidate of Biological Sciences (1952); worked in the laboratory of photobiochemistry of the Institute. A. N. Bach; since 1956 - at the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (Alma-Ata): head of the photosynthesis laboratory, headed the group for the study of plant chlorophylls (1961-1983) [8] ;

  • grandson - Andrew (b. 1954) [13] .

Scientific activity

In 1943 he defended his Ph.D. USSR Academy of Sciences) [4] [7] .

Created a scientifically based concept of the geological structure and history of the Pechora coal basin, laid the foundations of the geology of the Polar Urals [14] .

The author of about 100 scientific papers and several sheets of geological maps.

Selected Works

  • Voinovsky-Krieger K. G. On the morphology of corals of the Tetracoralla (Rugosa) group // Izvestiya Geol. com - L., 1929. - T. 47, No. 7. - S. 855-860.
  • Voinovsky-Krieger K. G. Lower-coal corals from the vicinity of the Arkhangelsk plant on the western slope of the Southern Urals: C 4 tab. / Center. scientific researcher geological exploration institute Sector geol. cards. - L.; M.; Terrible; Novosibirsk: State. scientific and technical mining geological oil Publishing House, 1934. - 64 p. - (Tr. / All-Union. Geological and Exploration Association NKTP USSR; Issue 107).

Hobbies

During his youth, he was interested in lepidoptera , or butterflies, gathered a large collection in the south of Primorye , which is currently stored at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg; his collections from the environs of Vladivostok , including from the Russian island (1913-1919), were certified: “Krieger-Voinovsk.” After his release from the 1950s, he again began to collect Lepidoptera, which he was interested in for the rest of his life. His collection with collections from the 1950s and 70s was handed over to V.V. Dubatolov in 1978 and is currently stored in the Siberian Zoological Museum of the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology of the SB RAS in Novosibirsk.

In honor of K. G. Voinovsky-Krieger named:

  • Bradina atopalis krigeri Streltzov et Dubatolov, 2009 (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Pyraustinae)

Rewards

  • Order of the Red Star (1943) [7]
  • Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Komi ASSR (1944)
  • Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" (1945)
  • Breastplate “For the development of the Pechora basin” (1945) [4]
  • Order of the Badge of Honor (1948) [7] .

Addresses

  • Petersburg , Znamenskaya st. , house number 44 [10] .

Memory

The letters and memoirs of K. G. Voinovsky-Krieger are stored in the funds of the Vorkuta Museum and Exhibition Center [7] .

On October 30, 2000, the Geological Museum in Vorkuta was named after K. G. Voinovsky-Krieger [3] [K 3] .

Comments

  1. ↑ According to other sources [1] , sentenced under Art. 58 7 : “undermining state industry for counter-revolutionary purposes.”
  2. ↑ According to other sources, released May 5, 1938.
  3. ↑ 1 2 The museum is located at ul. Lenin, 64; is a division of OJSC Polarnouralgeologiya.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Virtual Museum of the Gulag .
  2. ↑ Voinovsky-Krieger (Russian) . Encyclopedia of the Germans of Russia. Date of treatment January 11, 2019.
  3. ↑ 1 2 3 Geological Museum of OJSC Polyarnouralgeology (Russian) . Museums of Russia. Date of treatment January 11, 2019.
  4. ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Polar.net .
  5. ↑ 1 2 Page in the “Open List” .
  6. ↑ Borozinets L.G. On the path of industrial development of the Pechora region // Historical and cultural atlas of the city of Ukhta: popular science literature / ed. I. D. Vorontsova. - Ukhta, 2009. (Retrieved January 11, 2019)
  7. ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 F. Kolpakov .
  8. ↑ 1 2 3 E.V. Markova, 2006 , p. 234.
  9. ↑ Voinovsky-Krieger Henry-Oscar Bronislavovich (Russian) . Russian army in the great war. Date of treatment January 11, 2019.
  10. ↑ 1 2 3 4 Fedorova T.G., Katin-Yartsev M. Yu. , Minakhin V.V. Events in Petrograd on February 23 - March 2, 1917 through the eyes of a student of St. Petersburg Higher Women's (Bestuzhev) courses Fedorova Elena Aleksandrovna ( Russian) . Foundation "History of the Fatherland". Date of treatment January 11, 2019.
  11. ↑ E.V. Markova, 2006 , p. 231-232.
  12. ↑ E.V. Markova, 2006 , p. 229, 233.
  13. ↑ E.V. Markova, 2006 , p. 233.
  14. ↑ Konstantin Voinovsky-Krieger (Russian) . nekropole.info. Date of treatment January 11, 2019.

Literature

  • Markova E.V., Voinovskaya K.K. Konstantin Genrikhovich Voinovsky-Krieger, 1894-1979. - M .: Nauka, 2001 .-- 142 p.
  • Irina Aleksandrovna Voynovskaya-Krieger // Markova E.V. Once upon a time there were. - Syktyvkar, 2006 .-- S. 228–234. - (Komi Republican Martyrology of Victims of Mass Political Repressions “Repentance”; adj. No. 8) .

Links

  • Voinovsky-Krieger Konstantin Genrikhovich (Russian) . Virtual Museum of the Gulag. Date of treatment January 11, 2019.
  • Voinovsky-Krieger Konstantin Genrikhovich (Russian) . Polyarny.net (November 27, 2009). Date of treatment January 11, 2019.
  • Kolpakov F. Vorkuta is a city of the strong. Voinovsky-Krieger K.G. (Russian) . Proza.ru (2015). Date of treatment January 11, 2019.
  • The page in the "Open List" in the "Open List".
  • Bibliography in the information system " History of Geology and Mining " RAS.
Source - https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title= Voinovsky- Krieger__Konstantin_Genrikhovich&oldid = 101388242


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