Background
Alexander Gorodnitsky was born on 20 March 1933 in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation) in the family of employees.
Alexander Gorodnitsky was born on 20 March 1933 in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation) in the family of employees.
In 1951 Alexander Gorodnitsky graduated from high school with a gold medal and entered the geophysical department of the Leningrad mining Institute named after G.V. Plekhanov. In 1968 Alexander Gorodnitsky defended his thesis on "Application of magnetometry and Electrometry to the study of the ocean floor".
In 1957 Alexander Gorodnitsky was employed in the research Institute of Geology of the Arctic Ministry of Geology of the USSR. In 1957-1962 years he worked in the North-Western part of the Siberian platform, Turukhansk, Harkcom and Noril'sk areas as a geophysics, a geophysics senior, a head of a team and a head of the party. Alexander was engaged in geophysical searches of copper-nickel ores and copper mineralization, including methods of magnetometry and electrical exploration. He was one of the discoverer of the Igarka copper – ore field (1962). From 1961 Alexander Gorodnitsky participated in Oceanographic expeditions in the Atlantic, Okhotsk, Baltic and Black seas, including the expedition sailboat "Kruzenshtern".
Alexander Gorodnitsky is one of the authors of the new method of measurement of the electric field of the ocean (1967). In 1967 together with V.D. Fedorov and A.N. Paramonov opened the bioelectric effect of phytoplankton in the sea. From 1969 to 1972 he headed the laboratory of marine Geophysics at the research Institute of Arctic Geology in Leningrad.
In 1972 Alexander transferred to work in Moscow in the Institute of Oceanology named after P.P. Shirshov of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, where until 1985 he been worked as senior research fellow in the Department of tectonics of lithospheric plates. From 1985 he was the manager of the laboratory of geomagnetic studies.
Alexander participated in more than 20 flights of research vessels to various parts of the world ocean. He was on the North pole and in Antarctica, participated in diving manned underwater vehicles, participated in the search of Atlantis. In 1982 he defended his thesis for the degree of doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences on "the structure of the oceanic lithosphere and the formation of seamounts". Since 1991 he has been a professor on a specialty "Geology of the seas and oceans".
Alexander Gorodnitsky actively teaches at the International University in Dubna, where he is a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, and at Moscow state University named after M.V. Lomonosov, where he teaches a course on marine Geophysics.
Writers of Union of Russia
1972
international Pen club
Alexander Gorodnitsky is widely known as a poet and a songwriter along with the scientific activities. Alexander Gorodnitsky began to write poetry in school (1947) and songs during his first expeditions (1954). His first poetic publications date back to 1948. The most his popular songs are "Snow", "Wooden cities", "Song of polar pilots", "Shoals", "On the mainland", "Canada", "Hercules Pillars", "Wife of the French Ambassador", "Clean ponds" and many others. Alexander's discography includes about 50 titles of records, laser discs, audio and video cassettes with author's songs.