407 VARENTSOV 



VANICHEV, ALEKSANDR PAVLQVICH (Power Specialist) 



In June 1962, A. P. Vanichev was elected Corresponding 

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



VARENTSOV, MIKHAIL IVANQVICH (Geologist) 



M. I. Varentsov was born January 20, 1902. In 1929 he 

 graduated from Moscow Mining Academy. He was Director of 

 the Institute of Geological Sciences in 1949-55; and in 1956 he 

 became Chief of the Laboratory in the Institute of Oil of the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. In 1953 he was elected a Corre- 

 sponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 



Varentsov has further developed the studies of his teacher, 

 I. M. Gubkin (1871-1939, geologist), on the main problems of 

 oil geology. In 1929-49 he studied regional geological investi- 

 gations in tectonics, stratigraphy, and oil geology of Sakhalin 

 Island, North Caucasus, Tamanskii Peninsula, Turkmeniya, 

 Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Volga- Ural oil bearing terri- 

 tory, Venskii and Pannonskii Basins. In 1935-49 he was leader 

 of expeditions into the territory beyond the Caucasus, Turk- 

 men, Volga -Bashkir and Georgia. 

 Bibliography: 



and I. M. Gubkin. Geology of Oil and Gas Deposits of the 

 Tamanskii Peninsula. Baku-Moscow: 1934. 

 Oil deposits in Turkmen. International Geological Con- 

 gress. Works of the XVIIth Session of the U.S.S.R., 1937, 4, 

 Moscow: 1940. 



Problem of the oil-bearing of Turkmen in view of new 

 data. Geology and Commercial Minerals of Middle Asia. 

 Moscow-Leningrad: 1940 (U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences). 

 Geology and oil-bearing of the Venskii Basin. Collection of 

 Geological Works Devoted to the Memory of Academician 

 I. M. Gubkin. Moscow -Leningrad: 1948. 

 Geological Structure of the Western Part of the Kurinsk De- 

 pression. Mo scow -Leningrad: 1950. 



New oil-bearing province of the Pannonskii Basin of South- 

 Eastern Europe and its possible analogs. Collection of Geo- 

 logical Works Devoted to the Memory of Academician I. M. 

 Gubkin. Moscow-Leningrad: 1950. 



and V. T. Mordovskii. Geological Structure of the Northern 

 Edge of Gori-Mukhranskaya Depression. Moscow: 1954. 

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