Background
Nikolai Koksharov was born in Ust-Kamenogorsk (today"s Kazakhstan).
Nikolai Koksharov was born in Ust-Kamenogorsk (today"s Kazakhstan).
He was educated at the military school of mines in Street.Petersburg.
At the age of twenty-two he was selected to accompany Roderick Murchison and Edouard de Verneuil, and afterwards Doctor Keyserling, in their geological survey of the Russian Empire. Subsequently, he devoted his attention mainly to the study of mineralogy and mining, and was appointed director of the Institute of Mines. In 1865, he became director of the Imperial Mineralogical Society of Saint He contributed numerous papers on euclase, zircon, epidote, orthite, monazite, and other mineralogical subjects to the Street.Petersburg and Vienna academies of science, to Johann Christian Poggendorff"s Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Leonhard and Browns Ja/irbuch, &c.
He also issued as separate works Materialen zur Mineralogie Russlands and Vorlesungen uber Mineralogie.
Russian Academy of Sciences.
