359 SMIRNOV 



SMIRNQV, VLADIMIR IVANQV^ICH (Geologist) 



V. I. Smirnov was born January 1910. He graduated from 

 the Moscow Geological Survey Institute in 1934 and was an in- 

 structor there. From 1946 to 1951 he was U.S.S.R. Deputy 

 Minister of Geology. At the same time, he was professor at 

 Moscow Geological Survey Institute and at Moscow Institute of 

 Non- Ferrous Metals and Gold. In 1951 he became a professor 

 at Moscow University. He has been a member of the Commu- 

 nist Party of the Soviet Union since 1940. In 1958 he was elect- 

 ed Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, 

 and in June 1962, Academician. 



Smirnov has worked with problems in the geology of ore de- 

 posits, their survey, and evaluation. 



In January 1961, Smirnov visited the United States to attend 

 National Academy of Sciences Conferences and meetings at 

 Stanford University, California. 

 Bibliography: 



An Inventory of Natural Resource Mineral Reserves. Mos- 

 cow: 1950. 



The Geological Basis for Surveying and Mining Ore Deposits, 

 2nd ed. Moscow: 1957. 

 Office: Department of Geology 



Moscow University 

 Moscow, USSR 



SMIRNOV, VLADIMIR IVANQVICH (Mathematician) 



V. I. Smirnov was born June 10, 1887 in Leningrad (Petro- 

 grad). In 1910 he graduated from Petersburg University, in 

 1915 he began teaching there, and in 1926 he was made pro- 

 fessor. From 1912 to 1930 Smirnov was professor at Peters- 

 burg Institute of Engineers of Means of Communication. He 

 received the degree of Doctor in Physical-Mathematical Sciences 

 in 1936. He worked from 1929 to 1935 in the Seismological and 

 Mathematical Institutes of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 

 In 1932 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences and in 1943 an Academician. He was 

 awarded a Stalin Prize in 1948. 



Smirnov has worked primarily in theory of a function of a 

 complex variable such as the uniformization of the many-valued 

 analytical functions, the investigation of Fuchsian groups and 

 Fuchsian functions in the presence of an infinite number of 

 substitutions of corresponding groups, the reversal of a differ- 

 ential equation of the Fuchsian type with four singular points. 

 In a series of investigations conducted with S. L. Sobolev, 



