Background
TERPIGOREV, Aleksandr was born on November 21, 1873 in Tambov.
TERPIGOREV, Aleksandr was born on November 21, 1873 in Tambov.
1897 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Mining Institute.
Directed mines in Donbas. 1900 switched to research and teaching work at Yckaterinoslav Higher Mining College (now Dnepropetrovsk Mining Institute). December 1905 arrested for revol activities and exiled to Ryazan’ under police surveillance.
September 1906 returned to Yekaterinoslav after representations by the Mining Institute. From 1906 professor, then head Chair of Mining Technique.
1922-1928 professor, Chair of Mining Technique and pro-rector of studies, Moscow Mining Academy. 1929, after reorganization of this acad, deputy director, then director, Moscow Mining Institute. Instigated establishment of chairs of mining machinery/ at Soviet mining institutes.
1937-1947 head, Chair of Mining Machinery, from 1948 head, Chair of Seam Working, Moscow Mining Institute. Head. Department of Deposit Working Methods, Institute of Mining, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Supervised drafting of general plan for restoration of Donets Basin after World War 2.
From 1937 member, Organization(s) Bureau, All-Union Mining and Sciences-Technical Social. From 1941 Bureau member. Department of Technical Sciences, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
From 1943 chairman. Technical Terminology Committee, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Chairman, Commission for Underground Gasification, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Wrote numerous research works and textbooks on all aspects of mining.
Compiled first Soviet textbook on mining machinery.
God can not be proven by science which is the main way we study and understand our universe or natural world.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1935.