Background
LEBEDEV, Pyotr was born on August 23, 1885 in Piryatin, now Poltava Oblast.
LEBEDEV, Pyotr was born on August 23, 1885 in Piryatin, now Poltava Oblast.
1909 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Polytech Institute. 1912 graduate Saint St. Petersburg University.
From 1915 professor at various high educational establishments. From 1920 professor, Rostov University, then Leningrad Politech Institute, Leningrad Mining Institute et cetera From 1926 associate, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
Did research on classificatory, theoretical and experimental petrography, mineralogy, geochemistry. Carried out field studies in Kareliy, Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Ukraine, Kuznetsk Alatau, Altay and Far East. Wrote monograph on the Alagez volcano, tracing its development and classifying its mineralogical structure.
Religiously inspired people justify violence, resist social changes, and attack on science.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.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 1939.