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available ore reserves supplying the Kuznetsk metallurgical 

 plants, the determination of the production capacities of mines 

 in the Kuznetsk Basin, and the improvement of power facilities 

 in industrial centers of Western Siberia. In August-September 

 of 1943, he was engaged in similar work in Krarganda. He 

 worked in the Commission of the Peoples' Commissariat for 

 the Coal Industry, which was charged with the establishment of 

 rational systems for the extraction of the rich coal beds located 

 at the Prokopyevsk-Kisel region of the Kuznetsk Basin, as well 

 as the increased production of coking coal in the Osinovsk 

 region. Almost immediately after the Mining Institute moved 

 back to Moscow, Shevyakov worked there in establishments 

 subordinate to the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 



During the past 20 years, he was a member of the Presidi- 

 ums of Technical Councils in the Ministry of the Coal Industry, 

 the Ministry for the Building of Coal Enterprises, the Ministry 

 of Nonferrous Metallurgy, and frequently served as the chair- 

 man of expert commissions to study important coal and ore 

 mining technical problems. 



In 1943, he was appointed a member, and in 1946, director 

 of the Council for Scientific and Technical Consultation under 

 the Gosplan (State Planning Commission of the USSR), which 

 discussed the most important problems concerning the regional 

 distribution and development of industry. From 1947 to 1957, 

 he was a member of the Gosplan of the U.S.S.R. He has actively 

 participated in All- Union Conferences, and works for close 

 contacts between Soviet mining scientists and personnel em- 

 ployed in industry and in design and training institutes located 

 in outlying districts. He is an active member of the All- Union 

 Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Know- 

 ledge. From 1947 to 1950, he served as a delegate of the 

 Second Moscow City Council of Workers' Deputies; for many 

 years, he was elected a member of the Orgbyuro (Organization 

 Bureau) of the All- Union Scientific -Technical Mining Society. 

 From 1941 to 1944, he served as president of the Orgbyuro of 

 this society, and from 1953 to 1955, he acted as director of the 

 section for underground mining of coal deposits. 



Shevyakov is a member of the editorial boards of the follow- 

 ing scientific-technical journals: Izvestia An SSSR, Otdelenie 

 tecknicheskikh nauk (Bulletin of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 

 Division of Technical Sciences), Ugol (Coal), Gornii Zhurnal 

 (Mining Journal), ByuUeten ITEIN (Bulletin of the Institute of 

 Technical and Economic Information); he is also a member of 



