341 SHEV^YAKOV 



In 1953 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences and in 1958 an Academician. 



As of 1961 Shemyakin was Director of the Institute of Chem- 

 istry of Natural Compounds. 



In May 1960, Shemyakin visited the United States on an ex- 

 change program at the California Institute of Technology. 

 Bibliography: 



and A. S. Khokhlov . Chemistry of Antibiotic Substances, 2nd 

 ed. Moscow-Leningrad: 1953. 



and L. A. Shchukina . Oxidizing-hydrolytic transformations 

 of organic compounds. Uspekhi Khim., 1957, 26, #5. 

 and others . Chemistry of Antibiotics. 1-2 . Moscow: 1961. 

 Office: Institute of Natural Compounds of USSR Academy 



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SHEVYAKQV, LEV DMITRIEVICH (Mining Specialist) 



L. D. Shevyakov was born January 15, 1889 in Vetluga in the 

 former Kostroma province. He received his secondary edu- 

 cation at the Nizhnii- Novgorod gymnasium, and his higher edu- 

 cation at the Ekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk) Mining Insti- 

 tute, from which he graduated in 1912 as a mining engineer. 

 The mining graduation project on which he worked as a student 

 was awarded the Kublin Prize, and his project on metallurgical 

 mechanics was given an honorable mention. Following one year 

 of work at the Donbas mines, he was enrolled as an assistant 

 in the mining faculty of the Ekaterinoslav Institute, and in 1916, 

 he was appointed a docent at the same faculty. After defending 

 his dissertation in 1919 on the subject "Discovery of Hard Coal 

 Deposits," he was awarded the degree of Mining Assistant (ad- 

 junct) and, in 1920, he was appointed professor in the mining 

 faculty. 



Shevyakov served during his graduate work and after, until 

 1928, as professor and director of the mining faculty of the 

 Ekaterinoslav Mining Institute. In 1920-1922, he served with 

 B. I. Bokii, A. M. Terpigorev, A. A. Skochinskii, and V. A. 

 Guskov as a member of a Special Commission charged with the 

 restoration of the Donbas hard coal and anthracite industry. 

 After being sent on a mission by the VSNKh SSR (Supreme Coun- 

 cil of the National Economy of the USSR) to Germany, U. S. A., 



