Georgy Chernov
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| Native name | Георгий Александрович Чернов |
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April 21, 1906 Moscow, RU |
| Died | April 6, 2009 (aged 102) Moscow, RU |
| Occupation | Geologist |
| Title | Doctor |
George A. Chernov (April 21, 1906 – April 6, 2009) was a Russian geologist. He discovered the Vorkuta coal deposits and the petroleum district of the Bolshezemelskaya tundra, including the Usinskoe and Kharyaginskoye oil fields. Chernov discovered the piezoquartz deposits of the Vangyrskoe field during World War II, known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War. He obtained a doctorate in geological and mineralogical sciences from Moscow University and was the recipient of the Honored Geologist award of the RSFSR.
Chernov was the son of Alexander Alexandrovich Chernov (1877–1963), a Russian geologist and paleontologist, and his mother, Eugenia P. Magnushevskom. He had a sister named Olga. Chernov married Tamara Chernova and they had three children—two sons (Vadim, George A.) and one daughter (Tamusya). Chernov later remarried twice, to Marina and then to Lyuba, and had a second daughter—Eugenia.
In 1930 Chernov graduated from the Geophysics Department (Faculty) of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow University. He was a member of the Moscow Society of Naturalists.
During the war years Georgy was evacuated to Syktyvkar to work from Arkhangelsk on the Northern Geological Survey. All forces of geologists were sent in search of raw materials needed for the front. In 1944 he conducted research on the Kozhim River, and later on the upper reaches of the Vangyr river. Here Chernov opened Vangyrskoe field, discovering piezoquartz, a valuable raw material for the electronic industry. Chernov received an award as discoverer of the deposit.
From 1957 to 1967, Chernov was a senior researcher at the Institute of Geology, Komi Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1967 he retired and moved to Leningrad, where in 1968 he defended his doctoral thesis on "Paleozoic Bolshezemelskaya tundra and prospects of its oil and gas potential." Later, under the same title, he published his major monograph in the academic journal "Science".
In 1924, eighteen year old Georgy Chernov took part in an expedition led by his father, Alexander Alexandrovich Chernov, which inspired him to make geology his vocation. Almost every year thereafter, from 1924 to 1984, he traveled to different areas of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Komi Republic. In the summer of 1930 Chernov found high-energy coal at the Vorkuta River. Coal mining has been carried out there since 1931. Where these coal reserves were discovered Vorkuta industrial community was founded (supporting Vorkuta gulag) and it later became a city. For transportation on the Pechora River a coal port was built, which later became the city of Naryan-Mar.
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