Vladimir Sobolev (geologist)

Vladimir Stepanovich Sobolev (Russian: Владимир Степанович Соболев; * 17.jul / May 30 1908greg in Lugansk, Russian Empire, .. † September 1, 1982 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Russian mineralogist and geologist petrologist.

Life

Sobolev studied at the Mining Institute in Leningrad with the conclusion of 1930. During the 1930s, he studied the petrology of the Siberian Trapp formations as a member of the Central Geological Institute. He was also at this time in the Department of Petrology of the Leningrad State University. During this time he made predictions for primary diamond deposits ( kimberlite chimneys ) in Siberia, he concluded from structural geological similarities of the craton of Siberia with South Africa. Then set up a high -powered effort targeted and at the end (fifteen years later ) very successful search, even in areas where there was previously no finds were made, but they were geologically promising. 1941 to 1943 he was a consultant for the Geological Survey in Siberia and at the University of Irkutsk. From 1945 he was at the State University of Lviv. In 1958 he went to the Siberian branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and was a founder of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics in Novosibirsk, whose Deputy Director he was. 1960 to 1980 he was also professor and director of the Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology of the Novosibirsk State University, where from 1962 to 1971 dean of geosciences.

Sobolev dealt afterwards especially with Metamorphic rocks. He worked both theoretically and experimentally in mineralogy and petrology.

Honors and Memberships

He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1974 to 1978 and was president of the International Mineralogical Association. In 1978 he was made an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland and he was an honorary member of the Austrian Mineralogical Society and the mineralogical societies in France, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Ireland and the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Lenin Prize and the Stalin Prize.

One of Aleksandr Petrovich Khomyakov, TA Kurova and NI 1983 Chistyakova described, new mineral was named in his honor Sobolevit.

Writings

• Publisher The facies of metamorphism, Australian National University, Canberra, 1972 ( translation from Russian )
• Publisher The facies of regional metamorphism at high Pressures, Australian National University, Canberra, 1975 ( translation from Russian )
• With AN Zavaritskii The physicochemical principles of igneous petrology, Jerusalem, Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1964