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Important Dates in April


April 3, Lev Andreevich Suzdaltsev was born. He graduated from the is a mineralogist and collector, living in Chelyabinsk. He graduated from the St.-Petersburg University. During recent 20 years, he gifted several outstanding specimens to the university and other museums. These are epidote and perovskite from the Zelentsovskaya Mine in the South Urals, record pyrochlore crystals from the Tartar massif in Siberia.

April 8, 1765, Vasily Mikhailovich Severgin, a prominent chemist and mineralogist, was born (died 1826). He was a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, an author of the first compilation on the minerals of Russia (1809), and one of the founders of the St. Petersburg Mineralogical Society (1817).

April 8, 1960, Victor Ponomarenko was born. He graduathed from the Moscow State Mining Academy. He is a geologist, collector, and connoisseur of mineralogy of Dalnegorsk and Zhezkazghan. He worked on the abandoned pegmatites of Akzhailyau in eastern Kazakhstan where he collected outstanding crystals of pink apatite with alexandrite effect.

April 10, 1927, Alexander Alexandrovich Godovikov was born (died 1995). He is a famous Russian mineralogist. Mineral godovikovite is named in his honor.

April 13, 1923, Anatoly Ivanovich Kuvarzin was born. He is a geologist and a connoisseur of gemstones who worked for many years on the deposits of peuso-optic raw materials and gemstones for the Eksportsamotsvety Expedition. In the 1970s, he was a director of the “Colored Stones” shop in Moscow. He is one of the enthusiastic supporters of the Geopark Project. Together with Godovikov, he worked in the Vernadsky State Geological Museum after its opening in 1988.

April 17, 1834, Nils Gustaf Nordenskiold discovered alexandrite on the birth day of the future Emperor Alexander II. This jewelry variety of chrysoberyl originated from Izumrudnye Mines in the Middle Urals.

April 19, 1765,

April 19, 1957, Vladimir Krikov was born. This geologist and collector graduated from the Moscow State Mining Academy. He worked on the famous deposits of Kazakhstan (Altyn-Tyube, Kara-Oba, Akchatau). The main subject of his outstanding collection is micro-inclusions in quartz. These specimens attracted special attention in the Friends of Mineralogy Club in January-March 2003.

April 24, 1902, Georgy Alexeevich Krutov, a mineralogist and a geologist, was born (died 1989). He was a Professor of the Mineralogy Chair, Moscow University, and specialized in studies of cobalt deposits. Mineral krutovite was named in his honor.

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MINERAL OBSERVER
Mineralogical Almanac, volume 29, issue 1, 2024

80 pages, 140 illustrations including 67 mineral photos.

This issue of the Mineralogical Almanac titled “Mineral Observer” opens with an article by Andrey O. Karpov highlighting intriguing specimens from the recent acquisitions to the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, RAS. Following this, a comprehensive article explores the life and contributions of the outstanding mineralogist, Professor Andrey Glebovich Bulakh (1933–2020) by Vladimir G. Krivovichev, Aleksey I. Brusnitsyn, Anatoliy N. Zaitsev, and Anatoliy A. Zolotarev, his students and colleagues from the Mineralogy department of the Saint Petersburg State University. Lyubov V. Badyanova presents an article on quartz from the Belorechenskoe deposit, North Caucasus, Russia. In the section of “Mineral Shows 2023”, Maria D. Milshina shares her impressions on the “Gemma” mineral show held in Moscow in December. Polina V. Nikitina’s article delves into the poetic essence of stone as captured in the works of the renowned sculptor and stonecutter Sergey Falkin. Maria D. Milshina summarizes the results of the 6th All-Russian photo contest “Minerals Through the Lens”. In the “New Book for Mineral Collectors” section, Artem S. Borisov offers a review of the “Mines et Minéraux du Dôme de Barrot” book by Gilbert Mari devoted to the mineralogy, geology, and historical development of the Dôme de Barrot massif in France, one of the oldest copper ore mining sites.

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MINERAL OBSERVER
Mineralogical Almanac, volume 28, issue 3, 2023

80 pages, 185 illustrations including 125 mineral photos.

This issue of the “Mineralogical Almanac” is dedicated to the eminent mineralogist Victor I. Stepanov (1924–1988), whose centenary is celebrated this year. Nadezhda A. Krivolutskaya’s paper portrays Stepanov as a tireless researcher and a remarkable educator who mentored a generation of distinguished Russian mineralogists. This paper includes several previously unpublished photographs of Stepanov. Dmitry I. Belakovskiy, Igor V. Pekov, Alexander B. Nikiforov, and Andrey O. Karpov present a detailed account of the exhibition honoring Stepanov’s centennial at the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of RAS in Moscow, accompanied by photographs of minerals from Stepanov’s collection.

Three papers are dedicated to recent mineral shows. Joerg Liebe provides a report on the St. Marie aux Mines show in France, while Laszlo Kupi and Mark Mauthner contribute a mineral photo gallery from the same event. Maria D. Mil’shina covers some novelties on GEMMA-show in October, 2023 in Moscow, featuring extensive mineral photography. Victor V. Sharygin describes the new Russian meteorite Kapustin Yar. The issue concludes with a richly illustrated paper by Ludmila A. Budrina, "Wealth of the Earth in the Art of Stone Carvers", which showcases an exhibition at the Mining Museum of the St. Petersburg Mining University.



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MINERAL OBSERVER
Mineralogical Almanac, volume 28, issue 2, 2023

80 pages, 205 illustrations including 104 mineral photos.

This issue the Mineralogical Almanac opens with a paper by the Ural mineralogists Vladimir S. Ponomarev and Yuriy V. Erokhin "Almandine from the Glubochinskoe deposit near Sysert, Central Urals." The column "Outstanding Russian mineralogists" pre­sents a paper by Nadezhda A. Krivolutskaya, Evgenia V. Sidorova and Leonid R. Kolbantsev "There is nothing more practical than a good theory...,” devoted to 120 years of the birth of Mikhail N. Godlevskiy, a remarkable Russian mineralogist and geologist. The photo gallery is dedicated to specimens from Huanggang, China, from the collection of Olga and Dmitry Davydovs. A coverage of an interesting event in life of the the Russian mineralogical community, the exhibition "Mineral. Two Views" at Vernadsky State Geological Museum in Moscow, is given in the paper by Victoria V. Chernenko and Vladislav G. Dyatlov. The issue closes with a paper by Michael B. Leybov, in which he shares his impressions of the 2023 Tucson Mineral Show.



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