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BETYOKHTIN, Anatoliy was born in 1897 in village Strigino, now Vologda Oblast.
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Anatoliy Georgiyevich BETYOKHTIN
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Anatoliy BETYOKHTIN, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Geologist and mineralogist. two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (1945, 1957); Order of Lenin (1953); Stalin Prize, 2nd Class (1947); Prize of the Presidium of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences; Lenin Prize (1958). member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1953.
Education
1924 graduate Leningrad Mining Institute.
Career
Professor from 1937; Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences from 1937. Professor, Moscow Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold from 1949. Professor, Chair of Minerals, Leningrad Mining Institute and head, Laboratory of Mineralography, Institute of Ore Deposit Geology, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1937.
Sciences consultant, Ural and Kola Branches, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Chief ed, journal Geologiya rudnykh mestorozhdeniy from 1958. 1923-1928 ore geologist at ’’Red Ural” Mine, Nizhniy Tagil' Administration, Ural Platinum Trust.
1928-1929 senior assistant professor Chair of Mineralogy, Leningrad Mining Institute. 1939-1942 deputy director, Institute of Geological Sciences, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
1953-1955 head Department of Ore Deposits, Institute of Geological Sciences, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. 1929-1946 did research on Chiatura and other manganese deposits. 1930-1936 did research on chrome deposits in Urals and Caucasus.
1937-1940 ed and coauthor, various geological publications of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. 1941-1944 under wartime program for development of natural resources led manganese prospecting expeditions for Committee on Geology and Indiana Organization(s), People's Commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy. 1946-1953 correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
1946-1948 made trips to Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Poland as a geological consultant. 1955 visited Communist China with Soviet geological dcleg for conference on formation of ore deposits. 1956 attended International Geological Congress in Mexico.
Wrote over 200 works. Developed method of studying polished sections of platinum ore in reflected light. Compiled mineralography of ore deposits in Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Advanced several theories of ore deposit formation.
Religion
Religiously inspired people justify violence, resist social changes, and attack on science.
Views
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Membership
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1953.
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Nationality
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics
Awards
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Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (1945, 1957). Order of Lenin (1953). Stalin Prize, 2nd Class (1947). Prize of the Presidium of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Lenin Prize (1958).Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (1945, 1957). Order of Lenin (1953). Stalin Prize, 2nd Class (1947).
Prize of the Presidium of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Lenin Prize (1958).