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Moscow, USSR 

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PIYP, BORIS IVANQVICH ( Volcano loglst) 



B. I. Piyp was born November 6, 1906. After graduating 

 from the Leningrad Mining Institute in 1931, he conducted field 

 studies on the Kamchatka peninsula and the Urals. He began 

 working in the Laboratory of Volcanology of the U.S.S.R. Academy 

 of Sciences in 1940, and in 1940-46 and 1950-54 was Chief of the 

 Kamchatka Volcanological Station. Since 1945 Piyp has been a 

 member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1958 

 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Acade- 

 my of Sciences. For his monograph on the volcanoes of the 

 Klyuchevskaya group in 1956, he was awarded the Prize of the 

 Presidium of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. He has also 

 received the Order of the Red Star and medals. 



Piyp studied the volcanoes, hot springs and geologic struc- 

 ture of Kamchatka. He investigated in detail a number of 

 eruptions of volcanoes of various types. 



As of 1961, Piyp was a Member of the Presidium of the Si- 

 berian Branch U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, and Director of 

 the Kamchatka Joint Expedition. 



In 1962 he was appointed Director of the Siberian Branch 

 Institute of Volcanology. 

 Bibliography: 



Hot Springs of Kamchatka. Moscow- Leningrad: 1937. 

 (U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. Council for the Study of 

 Productive Forces. Kamchatka Series, #2) 

 Materials on the Geology and Petrography of the Regions of 

 Avachi, Rassoshina, Gavanka, and Nalacheva Rivers on the 

 Kamchatka. Moscow-Leningrad: 1941 (U.S.S.R. Academy 

 of Sciences, Council for the Study of Productive Forces. 

 Works of the Kamchatka Complex Expedition, 1936-37, #2). 

 Klyuchevsk Volcano and Its Eruption in 1944-45 and in the 

 Past. Moscow: 1956. (Works of the Laboratory of Volcan- 

 ology of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, #2) 

 Office: Laboratory of Volcanology 



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