Kompanioni Ioseb

Ioseb Kompanioni (b. September 13, 1884, Kutaisi – d. March 19, 1947, Tbilisi), mechanical engineer, professor, one of the founders of higher mining and technical education in Georgia. In 1910, he graduated from the Leoben Mining Academy (Austria), in 1914 – from the Faculty of Metallurgy of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute. In 1918, he returned to Georgia. He worked as an inspector of industry in Western Georgia, at the Chiatura manganese deposits, and then in Tbilisi, at the Supreme Soviet of National Economy. At the same time, he worked at the Caucasian Scientific Research Institute of Mineral Resources. He led geological exploration expeditions. He made a great contribution to the exploration of the Lopota marble deposit and its preparation for exploitation. From 1928, he worked at the Georgian Polytechnical Institute. Kompanioni was the first to scientifically substantiate the necessity of developing ropeways for the mountainous regions of Georgia; he theoretically investigated the issues of ropeway estimations.

Kompanioni received state awards.

 

K. Baramidze