Background
MIRONOV, Stepan was born on August 10, 1888.
MIRONOV, Stepan was born on August 10, 1888.
1914 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Mining Institute.
1913-1929 worked for Geological Committee in Leningrad. Surveyed oil deposits on Emba and Sakhalin. 1929-1931 director, 1932-1938 deputy director, 1938-1946 consultant, Leningrad Institute of Oil Geology.
1946-1947 department head, Oil Institute, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. 1947-1949 director, Sakhalin Research Base, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. 1949-1950 Presidium chairman, Sakhalin Branch, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
1950-1958 laboratory head, Oil Institute, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. 1958-1959 laboratory head, Institute of Geology and Combustible Minerals. Did research on oil survey methods and the mapping of deposits with the help of wells.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1946.