Background
FEDOROVSKJY, Nikolay was born on December 12, 1886.
FEDOROVSKJY, Nikolay was born on December 12, 1886.
1915 graduate Moscow University.
1917 member, Nizhniy Novgorod Province Executive Committee and Revol Committee. 1918-1919 member, All-Russian Central Executive Committee. 1919 head, Mining Department, Supreme Economic Council.
1919 Presidium member, Ukraine Supreme Economic Council. 1921-1922 head, Berlin Bureau of Foreign Sciences and Technical. 1922-1927 Collegium member, Department of Sciences and Technical, Supreme Economic Council.
1918-1923 co-founder and head, Chair of Mineralogy, Moscow Mining Academy. 1923-1937 co-founder and director, All-Union Research Institute of Mineral Raw Materials. Under his direction Institute was first to undertake comprehensive study of minerals, from prospecting and assaying to developing the production lechnol.
This helped establish raw material base lor numerous branches of non-metallic mining industry. From 1954 head, Applied Mineralogy and Metallurgy Section, All-Union Research Institute of Mineral Raw Materials. Wrote an original classification of minerals according to their energetic indices.
Also compiled a mineralogy course, which ran through a number of ed:Pubt: Kurs mineralogii (A Mineralogy Course) (5th ed, 1934). Geneticheskaya mineralogiya (Genetic Mineralogy) (1920). Opredeleniye mineralov (The Determination of Minerals) (3rd ed, 1934).
Opyt prikladnoy mineralogii (Experience of Applied Mineralogy) (1924). Mineraly v promyshlennosti i sel'skom khozyaystve (Minerals in Industry and Agriculture) (2nd ed, 1927). Nashi dostizlieniya v oblasti prikladnoy mineralogii (Our Achievements in the Field of Applied Mineralogy) (1935)Rekonstruktsiya mineralogii kali nauki (Reconstruction of Mineralogy as a Science) (1932).
Klassifikatsiya poleznykh iskopayemykh po energeticheskim pokazalelyam (The Classification of Minerals According to Their Energetic Indices) (1935).
Religious faith contradicts people’s efforts to obtain the truth about nature and a human being.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1933. Communist Party member from 1904.