Mineral Resource Exploration in the European North-East of the USSR, Led by A. A. Chernov (1930s – 1940s)

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Based on the archival documents and published works, the article examines the studies conducted by Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences A. A. Chernov in the 1930s – 1940s, and concerned with mineral resource exploration in the European North-East of the USSR. Chernov became involved in these studies when the interest in the economic exploration of the European North-East of the USSR increased in connection with the industrialization of the country. The article reviews research areas that aroused his greatest interest and the expeditions in the Polar and Subpolar Urals and Timan he had participated in. Chernov obtained the data on the geological and tectonic structures of the region and established a stratigraphic breakdown of the deposits in the areas he studied. Chernov was involved in mineral prospecting and estimating oil presence in the Timan / Pechora region. A critical component of these works was a detailed review of the geology of the Pechora Urals with its offshoots, the arc of the Novaya Zemlya, the Timan and the Kanin Peninsula, the northern part of the Russian plate; and the analysis of mineral resources in the northern areas and of their economic and industrial prospects. Chernov summarized his research in the field of geology and mineral resources, which he had conducted over many years, in his monograph titled “Productive Forces of the Komi ASSR. Vol. 1. Geological Structure and Mineral Resources of the Komi ASSR”.

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A. G. Osedakh

Federal Research Center “Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences”

Email: nastya_osedah@mail.ru
Ul. Kommunisticheskaia, 24, Syktyvkar, Republic of Komi, 167982, Russia

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