Ivan Gubkin
Ivan Gubkin | |
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Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[1] | |
Alma mater | Petersburg Mining Institute[2] |
Occupation | Petroleum geologist |
Awards | Lenin Prize (1931) Order of Lenin (1937) Order of the Red Banner (1939)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Moscow Mining Academy[1] |
Doctoral advisor | Karol Bohdanowicz[1] |
Ivan Mikhailovich Gubkin (Russian: Ива́н Миха́йлович Гу́бкин; September 21 [O.S. September 9] 1871 – 21 April 1939) was a Soviet and Russian geologist and president of the 1937 International Geological Congress in Moscow. He was a petroleum geologist particularly interested the region between the Volga and the Urals.
Gubkin was born to a poor farmer's family in the Belgorod area in the South of Russia. In 1895, aged 24 he moved to Saint Petersburg, but, due to the lack of money, could only enroll to a teachers institute. Only in 1903, he could enter the Petersburg Mining Institute. During his studies there, and after graduation in 1910, he worked at Maykop, Kuban, Taman and Absheron oil fields.[1][2]
In 1920 Gubkin was appointed to lead a government commission that was tasked to study the origin of the
Gubkin was well known to American geologists, as Goubkin. He attended the Annual Fieldtrip of the American Association of State Geologists in 1917,[3] and was the only member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists from the Soviet Union.[2]
Named in his honor
- Academician Gubkin Prize for accomplishment in petroleum science and engineering (1949–present)[1]
- Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
- Gubkin, a town in Belgorod Oblast, Russia[1]
- Gubkinsky, a town in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region of Russia[1]
- Gubkina Street in
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Биография Ивана Губкина Archived 30 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine. Tass.ru. 21 September 2021
- ^ a b c d Safonov, Anatole (1939). "Ivan Mikhailovitch Goubkin (1871–1939)". AAPG Bulletin. 23 (8): 1283–1284. Archived from the original on 10 July 2020. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- from the original on 30 October 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
Further reading
- Solov'Ev, Yu. Ya. (2007). "On the 125th birthday of Dmitrii Ivanovich Mushketov (1882–1938)". Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation. 15 (4): 443–448. S2CID 128791381.