Obruchev Academician Biography

Born on September 28 on October 10, on the estate in the village of Kleptenino of the Rzhevsky district of the Tver province, the village now does not exist in the family of a retired colonel. From the nobles. In childhood, due to her father’s service, the family moved several times to other cities and towns Kalish, Zhurovin, Mlav, Brest-Litovsk, Rado, Vilna, which developed love in traveling in a child.

He graduated from the Vilnius real school in the year, the St. Petersburg Mountain Institute of the year. In years, he worked in the survey expedition on the construction of the Trans -Caspian Railway in Karakum. The research results were summarized in his first major scientific work, published in the year and awarded. Since September, he served in Irkutsk by the geologist of the Irkutsk Mining Administration.

In the years, he performed two expeditions to the Lena, Vitim and Olekm basin for studying the gold -bearing region.

From the year, as part of the expedition of the Russian Geographical Society, led by Grigory Nikolayevich Potanin, he made large -scale studies of the Northern and Central China Province Sychuan, the Nanshan Range, the Highland Lake Kukunor, the central part of the gobi desert, the mountains of Qinlin, the first of Europeans penetrated the middle Nanshan. He overcame 13 kilometers through deserts and mountains.

The location of the three famous mountain ranges was clarified and six new ones opened, two unknown rivers were opened and investigated, and found large deposits of coal, gold deposits and some other metals. Based on the results of the research, he developed a picture of the geological structure of the studied areas. He collected a giant collection of seven thousand samples of flora, fauna and minerals, near the prints of fossil animals and plants.

When G. Potanin was forced to leave the expedition due to the sudden death of his wife, V. Obruchev headed it and completed all the planned studies. In fact, this expedition completed the case of the study of Central Asia, which was begun by N. due to difficulties that have fallen to its share and the results, this expedition is rightly assessed in Russian and world science as a scientific feat.

In the years, Obruchev worked as the head of the Trans -Baikal Mountain Party in Eastern Siberia, providing geological data with the construction of the Trans -Siberian Railway. In years he was on a scientific business trip in Western Europe. In the year, he again conducted research on the Lensky gold -bearing region. From the year he worked at the Tomsk Technological Institute - the professor and head of the Department of General Geology, the dean of the institute, created on his initiative of the mining department of the institute, acting as the dean of the chemical department of the institute at the institute in the years and years he makes three trips to the border Junnship of Xinjiang.

The study in this area, which is the junction of two large mountain systems - Altai and Tien Shan, allowed him to more deeply understand the geological structure of the Asian mainland. In the year, he is forced to leave the institute after a sharp criticism in the press of the Minister of Education of Cashcano. Since the year, Obruchev did not work in the public service, lived in Moscow, earned scientific publications and literary work.

During these years he wrote a number of works and popular science works, then he performed several local expeditions to Central Asia, to Altai. During this trip it turned out to be cut off from Moscow when the White Army of General A. He managed to get out of the war zone to the Crimea. In the years - a professor at the Tauride University in Crimea. In the year, the scientist was elected professor at the Department of Applied Geology in the newly organized Moscow Mining Academy and its vice -rector annually went to research expeditions to the Caucasus for a year.

In the year, he left teaching for the sake of scientific. In the year, when Obruchev was 73 years old, he made a long trip to the Altai Mountains, where he investigated the deposits of mercury of marble. During the Great Patriotic War, he worked in evacuation in Sverdlovsk - he headed work on the search for minerals in the Urals, he developed a plan for priority geological work and research for the needs of the defense of the homeland, for which the scientist was responsible throughout the country.

The author of 3 scientific works, not counting the translations. The main works on the geological structure of Siberia and its minerals, tectonics, nectonics, permafrost, paleontology. The fundamental research works “Central Asia, Northern China and Nanshan” in two volumes, “The History of the Geological Research of Siberia” in 5 volumes, - “Geology of Siberia” in 3 volumes, except for the scientific works of V. Voruchev is the author of books widely known to readers of several generations: popular science “plutonia”, published in, “land Sannikov”, published in, “gold miners in the desert”, “miserable mine”, “along the mountains and deserts of Central Asia”, “In the wilds of Central Asia, notes of the stress”; autobiographical books: “From Kyakhta to Kulji”, “My Travels in Siberia”; science fiction works “The incident in the Neskuchny Garden”, “Flight according to planets”; geology textbooks; Biographical books about Russian researchers of Asia: Przhevalsky, Chernsky, Mushkutov, Potanin, Kropotkin, Komarov.

Member of the editorial board of the magazine “Around the World” in - Dr. Geology received broad international recognition: prize of P. Chikhachev, the Paris Academy of Sciences, the N. Przhevalsky Award, Konstantinovskaya Golden Medal - the highest award of the Russian Geographical Society. The Honorary Member of the Chinese Geographical Society, the Hamburg Geographical Society, the Mineralogical Society, the Moscow Society of Nature Testers, the London Geographical Society, the Society of Land Film in Berlin, the Hungarian Geographical Society, the American Geographical and Geological Societies, the New York Museum of Natural History.

He lived in the city of Gero Moscow. He died on June 19 in Zvenigorod, Moscow Region. The plot 1 was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. He was awarded 5 Orders of Lenin 9. Twice laureate of the Stalin Prize, the Prize named after V. Prize named after Przhevalsky and Chikhachev, the Big Golden Medal of the Russian Geographical Society Bolshaya Golden Konstantinovskaya medal twice laureate of the French Academy of Sciences, one of the Mineralovs opened by V.

Voruchev was named In his honor "Voruchevit". The steppe in Central Asia between the Murghab and the Amu Darya rivers, for the first time described by it, is called the steppe of Obruchev. Voruchev for works on geology. The bust of V. Obruchev was installed in Tomsk. The building of the main building of the Tomsk Polytechnic University has a memorial plaque in his honor, and the scientific and technical library of the University is named after it.

His three sons followed in the footsteps of his father: one of them became a zoologist and geographer, the other a paleontologist. The third son is most famous - Sergey Vladimirovich Voruchev - - a geologist and geographer, who made unique campaigns and studies of remote areas of Eastern Siberia, opened a grand ridge of Chernsky in the east of Yakutia, the pole of the cold of the Northern Hemisphere, the Tungusky coal pool.