Ilya Ilyich Malyshev was a Soviet statesman and Minister of Geology of the USSR from 1946 to 1949.[1]

Ilya Malyshev
Илья Малышев
Chairman of the State Commission for Mineral Reserves of the Council of Ministers of the USSR
In office
December 1957 – August 1971
1st Minister of Geology of the USSR
In office
June 14, 1946 – April 11, 1949
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPyotr Andreevich Zakharov
2nd Chairman of the Committee for Geological Affairs under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR
In office
July 1939 – June 14, 1946
Preceded byIvan Mikhailovich Gubkin
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Personal details
Born(1904-08-01)1 August 1904
Maykor village, Solikamsk district, Perm, Russian Empire
Died23 April 1973(1973-04-23) (aged 68)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalitySoviet
Political partyCPSU
Other political
affiliations
VKP(b) (since 1932)
Awards

Biography edit

In 1930, he graduated from the Ural Mining Institute with a degree in mining engineering and exploration geology.

From 1930 to 1932, he worked as deputy director of the Ural branch of the Institute of Applied Mineralogy in the city of Sverdlovsk.

From 1932 to 1935, he was a graduate student at the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad and Moscow. From 1935 to 1937 he was a senior researcher at the USSR Academy of Sciences.

From 1937 to 1939, he was the Deputy Head of the Main Geological Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry of the USSR.

From 1939 to 1946, he was the Chairman of the Committee for Geological Affairs of the USSR, and Minister of Geology of the USSR, he was removed from this position in connection with the Krasnoyarsk Affair.[2][better source needed]

From 1949 to 1952, he was the head of the North-Western Geological Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Geology in Petrozavodsk.

From 1952 to 1957, he worked at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Mineral Raw Materials as senior researcher and head of the titanium sector.

From 1957 to 1971, he was the Chairman of the State Commission for Mineral Reserves under the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

Earned a Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences in 1958.

He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery. In 2006, a new mineral, Malyshevite, was named in his honor.[3]

Membership in organizations edit

1932 - Member of the VKP(b).

Awards edit

References edit

  1. ^ Prokhorov, A. M., ed. (1969). "Malyshev, Ilya Ilyich". Great Soviet Encyclopedia: [in 30 volumes] (in Russian). Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia.
  2. ^ "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1917-1964". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  3. ^ Черников А. А., Чистякова Н. И., Уваркина О. М. и др. Малышевит PdBiCuS3 ‒ новый минерал из месторождения Средняя Падма в южной Карелии // Новые данные о минералах. Вып. 41. 2006. С. 14-17.

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