Kuznetsov Ivane

Kuznetsov, Ivane [b. August 27 (September 8), 1892, Nalchik – d. June 9, 1946, Moscow], Russian geologist, researcher of the Caucasus. Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1942). In 1919, he graduated from the Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) Mining Institute. Until 1939, he worked at the Geological Committee, and from 1939 to 1946 at the Geological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1941–1944, he lived in Tbilisi, participating in the work of local geological institutions. His primary works concern issues of Caucasian tectonics and magmatism. He also clarified key issues of the stratigraphy of the Mesozoic slate series of the Greater Caucasus and established the Early Cambrian age of the phyllite suite of the Dzirula Massif.

Literature: Pенгартен В., Памяти Ивана Георгиевича Кузнецова, «Известия АН СССР. Серия геологическая», 1947, №6.

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