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Polytechnical Institute at Tomsk as a professor and Director of 

 the Chair of Advanced Mining Construction. Since 1957, he 

 has been Director of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences Siberian 

 Branch Institute of Mining. Chinakal was awarded the degree 

 of Doctor of Technical Sciences without presenting a disser- 

 tation, and in February 1958, was elected to the U.S.S.R. Acade- 

 my of Sciences as a Corresponding Member. He received a 

 Stalin Prize for his shield system in 1942. Other awards in- 

 clude the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, 

 and a medal for "Valorous Work in the Great Patriotic War" 

 (WWII). He has been a member of the Communist Party of the 

 Soviet Union since 1944. 



In the Kuzbas, Chinakal commenced work in 1930 on project 

 administration, first as a deputy, and later as chief engineer 

 of the planning administration of Kuzbassugol. In 1935, he 

 formulated a scheme of shield reinforcement for the exploi- 

 tation of the thick strata of precipitous slopes. The shield 

 system of exploitation, suggested and introduced by Chinakal 

 in close collaboration with the collective of coal mines and the 

 Kuzbassugol Combine, was a contribution in the exploitation of 

 thick precipitous coal strata. In 1943, as a member of the 

 Government Commission, he took an active part in the organi- 

 zation of the West Siberian branch of the U.S.S.R. Academy of 

 Sciences, and from 1944 was a permanent Director of the Min- 

 ing and Geological Institute of the West Siberian affiliate of the 

 Academy of Sciences. Chinakal has contributed 106 scientific 

 works. His major works are devoted to questions on develop- 

 ment and improvement of systems of utilization and mechaniz- 

 ation of coal deposits. 

 Bibliography: 



System of Exploitation with Shield Reinforcement. Moscow - 

 Leningrad: 1943. 



Light, non-sectional shield. Coal, 1954, #2. 

 Shield method of exploitation. Progressive Method Using 

 Systems of Exploitation in the Kuzbas. Moscow: 1957. 

 and N. V. Marevich. Shield method of exploitation with 

 gravity filling of worked-out space. Progressive Method 

 Using Systems of Exploitation in the Kuzbas. Moscow: 1957. 

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