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 Office: Dnepropetrovsk Chemical-Technological Institute 



Dnepropetrovsk, USSR 



SATPAEV, KANYSH IMANTAEVICH (Geologist) 



K. I. Satpaev was born April 11, 1899. He began his edu- 

 cation in a two-grade village school. He went on to the Tomsk 

 Technological Institute, where he graduated in 1926. He holds 

 the degree of Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences 

 and the title of professor. Satpaev has been a member of the 

 Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1944. In 1946 he 

 became Academician of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and 

 Academician of the Kazakh S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. He 

 was elected Chairman of the Presidium of the Kazakh S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences in 1941 and was made Director of the 

 Institute of Geological Sciences of the Kazakh Affiliate of the 

 Academy of Sciences U.S.S.R. (reorganized in 1946 as the 

 Kazakh S.S.R. Academy of Sciences). He has received a State 

 Prize and the Order of Lenin three times. In 1951 Tadzhik 

 S.S.R. Academy of Sciences made him an Honorary Member. 

 In March 1962, Satpaev was elected delegate from Kazakh S.S.R. 

 to the Supreme Soviet. As of 1961 he was a member of the Pre- 

 sidium of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 



Satpaev early developed an interest in the potential mineral 

 wealth of his native Kazakhstan. After graduation he worked 

 with the Dzhezkazgan Geological Prospecting Group, 1926-1941. 

 During this period, Satpaev directed explorations of abandoned 

 copper mining areas. Helped by young Kazakhs returning from 

 mining courses in Leningrad, this group discovered one of the 

 richest ore deposits in the world, that of Great Dzhezkazgan. 

 Subsequently, he surveyed the Karsakpay iron ore deposits, 

 twin of the Krivoy Rog deposits, and found lignite. From 1926- 

 1941 he also supervised a geological study of Tadzhik S.S.R. 

 and found important ore deposits. He investigated various de- 

 posits of iron, manganese, brown coal, and lignite. During the 

 early period of the war, manganese for steel was in very short 

 supply, due to the German occupation of Nikopol. Satpaev sug- 

 gested finding manganese in Dzhezda and organized its dis- 

 covery and mining in record time. During this period, the 

 Kazakh Affiliate of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. 

 conducted 350 expeditions resulting in 160 practical proposals 

 to the government. 



