Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky was a prominent Russian and Soviet geologist and mineralogist,and the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences,and later Academy of Sciences of the USSR,in 1917–1936.
Pionerskaya Pravda is an all-Russian newspaper. Initially it was an all-Union newspaper of the Soviet Union. Its name may be translated as "Truth for Young Pioneers".
Alexander Evgenyevich Fersman was a prominent Soviet Russian geochemist and mineralogist,and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1919–1945).
Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov was a Soviet and Russian crystallographer,geochemist,academician (1953),and Hero of Socialist Labour (1969).
Semyon Isaakovich Volfkovich was an outstanding Soviet chemist,inorganic chemist,technologist,Doctor of Chemical Sciences (1934),member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He was engaged in the technology of production of mineral fertilizers,studied the processes of electrothermal sublimation of phosphorus. He developed an industrial scheme for producing potassium salts from sylvinite and a new technology for producing concentrated phosphate fertilizers. He was the first in the USSR to conduct research on fluoride gases uilization,to study the processes of processing mirabilite into soda and ammonium sulfate. He studied the catalytic and other properties of aluminum-,boron-,iron-phosphates.
Sergey Semyonovich Nametkin was a Soviet and Russian organic chemist,a prominent researcher in terpene chemistry,the cracking of petrochemicals,and rearrangement of camphenes. Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Winner of two Stalin Prizes.
Kanysh Imantayuli Satbayev was a Kazakh professor,geologist and one of the founders of Soviet metallogeny and the principal advocate and first president of Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences.
Ilya Yankelevich Gabay was a key figure in the civil rights movement in the Soviet Union. Gabay,who was Jewish,was also a literature teacher,poet,and writer. During his lifetime,his works were published only in samizdat.
Mirali Seyidali oglu Qashqai,was an eminent Azerbaijani and Soviet geologist,author of multitude works in the sphere of geomorphology and stratigraphy. He was an honorary member of Mineralogical Society,former chairman of Azerbaijani department of the Society,and full member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR. He was one of the founders of scientific school in the sphere geologo-mineralogical sciences and he was the supervisor of geochemistry and mineralogy of ore departments of Geology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan.
The Ministry of Communications of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian:МинистерствосвязиСССР) was the central state administration body on communications in the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1991. During its existence it had three names:People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs (1923–32),People's Commissariat for Communications (1932–46) and Ministry of Communications (1946–1991). It had authority over the postal,telegraph and telephone communications as well as public radio,technical means of radio and television broadcasting,and the distribution of periodicals in the country.
Kadir Rakhimovich Timergazin was a Soviet petroleum geologist and a professor of geological-mineralogical science.
Nina Yevgenyevna Vedeneyeva was a physicist involved in the study of mineral crystals and their coloration. Heading numerous departments at such institutions as the All-USSR Institute of Mineral Resources,the Institute of Geological Sciences and the Institute of Crystallography,she conducted research into color variants of clay minerals and classifying clays which occurred in organic dyes. She was noted for development and design of instruments to improve the methods of optical crystallography. She was the last partner-muse of the poet Sophia Parnok and was awarded the Stalin Prize and Order of Lenin for her scientific studies and inventions.
Sorojon Mikhailovna Yusufova was a Tajik geologist and academic of the Soviet era.
Arseny Dmitrievich Mironov was a Russian scientist,aerospace engineer,and aviator. He was one of the oldest researchers in aircraft aerodynamics and flight testing,a Gromov Flight Research Institute (GFRI) director from 1981 to 1985,a recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1948 and the USSR State Prize in 1976,and an honorary citizen of Zhukovsky.
Max Taitz was a Soviet scientist,engineer,and one of the founders of Gromov Flight Research Institute (1941). He was a doctor of engineering,a professor,and a recipient of the Stalin Prize,and the honorary title of Honoured Scientist of the RSFSR (1961).
Vera Aleksandrovna Varsanofieva was a Soviet geologist,geomorphologist,a member-correspondent of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences,and an honored scientist of the RSFSR. She was the first woman to be awarded the degree of Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences.
Vladilen Fyodorovich Minin is a Soviet and Russian physicist,Doctor of Technical Sciences,a professor,a member of the Academy of Technological Sciences of the Russian Federation. He was the founder,general director and chief designer of the Institute of Applied Physics (1966-1996),the founder and president of the Urals-Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Technological Sciences. He developed air- and navy- launched missiles,custom control and safety systems and computer equipment.
Mariya Borisovna Borodaevskaya,née Kessenikh was a doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences,professor,specialist in gold and copper deposits. She was an Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic,Commander of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour,two Orders of the Badge of Honour and other government awards,veteran of Central Scientific Research Geological Prospecting Institute of Non-ferrous and Precious Metals.
Yekaterina Alexandrovna Ankinovich (1911-1991) was a Soviet geologist and mineralogist,Doctor of Sciences and professor. She discovered a record number of minerals - 12. She won the Lenin Prize and the Stalin Prize.
Habib Muhammedovich Abdullayev was a Soviet-Uzbek geologist and politician who led the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR from 1956 to 1962 and served as chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Uzbek SSR. His son Pulat Abdullayev became a diplomat.
