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Karpinsky All-Russian Geological Institute


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KARPINSKY ALL-RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, a research institute of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, situated at 74 Sredny Avenue of Vasilievsky Island. It was founded in 1931 on the basis of the Geological Committee and named the Central Research Institute for Geological Exploration until 1939. The institute was named after A. P. Karpinsky in 1982. It conducts comprehensive geological studies of Russia and the location of natural resources, constructs general geological maps, develops methods for geological survey and search of solid natural resources, and supervises stratigraphic, petrological, geochemical and metallogenic research systematically. There are a number of institutions operating under the Institute such as the Interdepartmental Stratigraphic Committee, the Scientific Editorial Board of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation for appraising geological maps, and the Paleontological Society. The institute work is associated with Y. A. Bilibin, A. A. Borisyak, A. P. Gerasimov, I. I. Gorsky, Y. A. Zhemchuzhnikov, A. N. Zavaritsky, V. K. Kotulsky, D. V. Nalivkin, V. P. Nekhoroshev, N. F. Pogrebov, P. I. Preobrazhensky, S. S. Smirnov, P. I. Stepanov, P. M. Tatarinov, V. I. Yavorsky and other scientists. The institute building was constructed for the Geological Committee in 1912-14 by architect A. A. Polishchuk assisted by architects M. G. Preobrazhensky and I. I. Pomerantsev.

Reference: Геолком - ВСЕГЕИ в развитии геологической службы и укреплении минерально-сырьевой базы России, 1822-2002. СПб., 2002.

O. N. Ansberg.

Persons
Bilibin Yury Alexandrovich
Borisyak Alexey Alexeevich
Gerasimov A.P.
Gorsky Ivan Ivanovich
Karpinsky Alexander Petrovich
Kotulsky Vladimir Klementievich
Nalivkin Dmitry Vasilievich
Nekhoroshev Vasily Petrovich
Pogrebov Nikolay Fedorovich
Poleshchuk Andrey Lvovich
Pomerantsev I. I.
Preobrazhensky Mikhail Timofeevich
Preobrazhensky Pavel Ivanovich
Smirnov Sergey Sergeevich
Stepanov Pavel Ivanovich
Tatarinov Pavel Mikhailovich
Yavorsky Vasily Ivanovich
Zavaritsky Alexander Nikolaevich
Zhemchuzhnikov Yury Apollonovich

Addresses
Sredny Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 74

Bibliographies
Геолком - ВСЕГЕИ в развитии геологической службы и укреплении минерально-сырьевой базы России, 1822-2002. СПб., 2002

The subject Index
Geological Committee



Geological Committee

GEOLOGICAL COMMITTEE, the first governmental geological institution in Russia. It was founded in 1882 as part of the Department of Mines to conduct systematic studies of Russia's geological structure and mineral resources and construct general

Karpinsky A.P., (1846-1936), geologist

KARPINSKY Alexander Petrovich (1846/47-1936), geologist, Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1886), of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917), and of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1925)

Sredny Avenue of Vasilievsky Island

SREDNY AVENUE OF VASILIEVSKY ISLAND (called Malaya Pershpektiva from the 1730s until the 1770s, known as Mussorgskogo Avenue in 1939-44), from Makarova Embankment to Nalichnaya Street