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England, and Scotland in 1925, he published a number of articles 

 describing the status and trends of the development of the for- 

 eign mining industries. From 1929 to 1932, he served as pro- 

 fessor at the Tomsk Technological Institute; from 1932 to 1944, 

 as professor on the mining faculty at the Sverdlovsk Mining 

 Institute, and from 1944 to 1950, as professor and director of 

 the faculty for the mining of blanket deposits at the Stalin Mos- 

 cow Mining Institute. 



During these years, he served as permanent consultant and 

 mining expert for numerous design establishments, main ad- 

 ministrations, and individual mining enterprises, such as Donu- 

 gol, Yugostal (Southern Steel Industry Trust), Soletrest, Kuz- 

 basugol (State Association of the Hard Coal Industry of the 

 Kuznetsk and Minusink Basins), Uralugol, Giproshakht (State 

 Institute for the Design of Mine Construction in the Hard Coal 

 Industry) and its Siberian affiliate, Gipromedruda (State Insti- 

 tute for the Design and Planning of Copper Mining Establish- 

 ments). During the restoration of the Donbas, he was in charge 

 of a design group in Dnepropetrovsk, which conducted numerous 

 designs of mines in the Donets Basin. He was directly con- 

 cerned with the development of design projects for high- 

 capacity mines in the Kuznetsk Basin, and he acted as consult- 

 ant in working out design projects for coal mines in many 

 regions of Siberia. 



The Ural affiliate of the Academy, which served the varied 

 economy and industry of the Urals, expanded its scientific ac- 

 tivities under his direction. During World War II, Shevyakov 

 conducted extensive work in the Commission for mobilizing the 

 resources of the Ural region. Western Siberia, and Kazakhstan 

 to serve defense requirements. In 1942, Shevyakov, with A. A. 

 Skochinskii, worked to restore the Donets and Moscow Basins 

 destroyed by the Germans. In January 1942, he worked in the 

 town of Karpinsk, where he determined the possibility of ex- 

 panding coal production from the Bogoslovsk deposits in the 

 Urals. In May 1942, he worked at the Ural Aluminum Plant in 

 connection with the expansion of Bauxite production in Kamensk 

 Region; in June-July 1942, he was in Kazakhstan where he in- 

 creased coal production, ore production, and the smelting of 

 metals. In September 1942, he worked in Korkino and Kopeysk 

 where he served as consultant on a number of technical prob- 

 lems concerning the development of coal extraction by the open 

 pit method. 



In February -March of 1943, he was a member of the com- 

 mission entrusted with the determination of the status of the 



