Education
1908 graduate Tomsk Technol Institute.
1908 graduate Tomsk Technol Institute.
1906-1909 member, Victoria and Albert Obruchyov’s expeditions to Dzhungaria. After graduate remained at Tomsk Technol Institute to train for professorship, which he gained in 1913. From 1917 did major research on the geological structure and tectonics of the Kuzbas coalbearing regions.
1921-1930 head, Siberian Branch, Geological Committee. 1932-1939 correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Until 1938 sci director, West Siberian Geological Survey Trust.
Apart from Siberia also studied the geology of the neighboring areas of China and Mongolia. Publ.Fazy effuzivov (The Phases of Effusive Rock Formation) (1924). Fatsii i fazy intruzivov (The Facies and Phases of Intrusive Rock Formation) (1925).
Elementy tektoniki Kuzbassa i stratigrafii uglenosnykh otlozheniy■ Kuzbassa (The Elements of the Tectonics of the Kuzbas and the Stratigraphy of Coal-Bearing Deposits in the Kuzbas) (1934). Fazy i tsikly tektogeneza Zapadno-Sibirskogo kraya (The Phases and Cycles of the Tcctogenesis of the West Siberian Kray) (1936), et cetera