159 KHRENOV 



KHOMENTQVSKII, ALEKSANDR STEPHANQV^ICH (Geologist) 



A. S. Khomentovskii was born in 1908. In 1930 he graduated 

 from the Siberian Technological Institute in Tomsk. From 

 1930-37 he directed geological research parties. He taught, 

 1938-41, at the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical Institute. He 

 served in the Soviet Army from 1941-43. He worked, 1943- 

 1954, at the ''Yuzhuraluglerazvedka'' (South Urals Coal Prospect- 

 ing) trust in Orensburg. From 1955-57 he was chairman of the 

 department on Geology and Useful Minerals at the Saratov State 

 University; and from 1957 to 1960, of the Perm Mining Insti- 

 tute. In 1960 he became chairman of the Presidium of the Far- 

 Eastern branch of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. Since 

 1941 he has been a member of the Communist Party of the 

 Soviet Union. In 1950 Khomentovskii was awarded a Stalin 

 Prize. He was elected in 1960 a Corresponding Member of the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 



Khomentovskii' s main works deal with the classification, 

 tectonics, formation and distribution of coal deposits in Siberia 

 and the Urals. 



Office: USSR Academy of Sciences 



Leninskii Prospekt, 14 

 Moscow, USSR s^ODS 



KHRENQV, KONSTANTIN KONSTANTINQVICH (Electric 

 Welding Engineer) 

 K. K. Khrenov was born February 25, 1894. He graduated 

 in 1918 from Petrograd Electrotechnical Institute and in 1921- 

 25 taught there. From 1928 to 1947 he taught at the Moscow 

 Electromechanical Institute of Railroad Transport Engineers, 

 where in 1933, he was made profe-ssor. In 1931 he also began 

 teaching in the Moscow Higher Technical School. He worked in 

 the Institute of Electric Welding of the Ukrainian Academy of 

 Sciences in 1945-1948; and in 1952 he began working in the 

 Institute of Electrotechnics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sci- 

 ences. In 1947 he was made professor at Kiev Polytechnic 

 Institute. Khrenov has been an Academician of the Ukrainian 

 S.S.R. Academy of Sciences since 1945 and since 1953 a mem- 

 ber of its presidium. In 1953 he was elected a Corresponding 

 Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. Since 1955, he 

 has been a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 



