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Scientific basis for the classification of railroads. Con- 

 struction of Railroads and Track Equipment. Moscow: 1948. 

 Designing of Railways, 3rd ed., 1-3. Moscow: 1948. 

 Office: Moscow Institute of Railroad Engineers 



Moscow, USSR 

 Residence: Arbat, 20 



Moscow, USSR 

 Teleplione: Gl 41 11 



GORSKI, IVAN IVANQVICH (Paleontologist) 



I. I. Gorski was born September 12, 1893, In 1935, he be- 

 came a professor at the Leningrad Mining Institute. From 1943 

 to 1947, he was Director of the All-Union Scientific Research 

 Institute of Geology. He was Chairman of the Karelo- Finnish 

 Branch of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences from 1947 to 1952. 

 In 1950, he became Director of the Laboratory on Coal Geology 

 of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, and in 1954 he was elected 

 Chairman of the All-Union Paleontological Society. Since 1943, 

 he has been a Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Gorski is a specialist in the geology of the Urals, particular- 

 ly of the Ural coal deposits. He investigated coral fauna of 

 upper Paleozoic U.S.S.R. He has studied the geology of coal 

 bearing regions of the Urals, Kazakhstan and Central Asia; 

 stratigraphy and tectonics of the Urals, Kazakhstan and other 

 parts of U.S.S.R.; coral and other fauna of the Carboniferous 

 Urals, Kazakhstan, Central Asia and the Arctic. He took part, 

 as a Chief Editor, in compiling geological maps of the Urals 

 (scale of 1/500,000-1939), of the European section of the 

 U.S.S.R., of the Urals and Caucasus (scale of 1/1,500,000-1948), 

 a map for the survey of coal regions in the U.S.S.R. (scale of 

 1/5,000,000-1956), etc. Total amount of works is over 200 

 titles. 

 Bibliography: 



Detailed Geological Survey of the Kamensk Works Region. 



Moscow -Leningrad: 1931. 



Coral from Lower Carboniferous Deposits of the Kirkhiz 



Steppes. Moscow-Leningrad: 1932. 



Geological outline of the Kizelovskii region. Coal Bearing 



Deposits of the Western Slope of the Urals. Leningrad- 

 Moscow: 1932. 



Carboniferous corals of Novaya Zemlya, Leningrad, 1938. 



(Works of the All-Union Arctic Institute, 93). 



