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MEL'NIKOV, NIKOLAI VASIL'EVICH (Mining Engineer) 



N. V. Mel'mkov was born February 28, 1909. He graduated 

 in 1933 from Sverdlovsk Mining Institute and has the degree of 

 Doctor of Technical Sciences. From 1950 to 1956 he was pro- 

 fessor at the Academy of Coal Industry. In 1955 he became 

 Deputy Director of the Institute of Mining at the U.S.S.R. Acade- 

 my of Sciences. Mel'nikov has been a member of the Commu- 

 nist Party of the Soviet Union since 1944. In 1953 he was elect- 

 ed a Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of 

 Sciences and in June 1962 an Academician. From 1949 to 1954 

 he was a member of the Council of Ministers Bureau on Fuel 

 and Metallurgical Industries. In 1961 he was Minister of the 

 U.S.S.R. He was elected Deputy to the Supreme Soviet, sixth 

 session. As of 1961, Mel'nikov was Director of the U.S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences Institute of Mining. In March 1962, he 

 was elected to the Council of Nationalities. As of 1962 he is 

 Chairman of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers State Committee 

 on Fuel Industries. He was awarded, in 1946, a Stalin Prize. 



Mel'nikov's main works deal with the investigation of new 

 systems of open pit mineral deposits and of rational methods in 

 utilizing techniques of open pit mining. 

 Bibliography: 



Mineral Output by the Open Pit Method. Moscow -Leningrad: 



1948. 



Drilling of Wells and Holes in Open Pit Mining. Moscow: 



1953. 



Mechanization of Dumping Operations in Open Pit Mining. 



Moscow: 1954. 



Development of Mining Science in the Area of Open Pit 



Mining of Deposits in the U.S.S.R. Moscow: 1957. 

 Office: Institute of Mining of the USSR Academy of Sciences 



Stantsiya Panki 

 Moscow Oblast', USSR 

 Residence: ul. Vorovskogo 33/35 



Moscow, USSR 

 Telephone: D5 02 27 



MEL'NIKOV, OLEG ALEKSANDROVICH (Astronomer) 



O. A. Mel'nikov was born in 1912. Upon his graduation in 

 1933 from Khar'kov State University, he began working at the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences Main Astronomical Observatory 

 (Pulkovo). In 1946 he also became a professor at Leningrad 

 State University (Department of Astrophysics). In December 

 1961, he became Assistant Director of the U.S.S.R. Academy of 



