Anniversaries and Dates

K. V. Radugin

(On the 75th Anniversary of His Birth)

In June 1974, 75 years had passed since the birth of the outstanding expert on the regional geology of Siberia, professor of the Tomsk Polytechnic Institute, laureate of the State Prize, Konstantin Vladimirovich Radugin.

K. V. Radugin was born on May 21 (June 3), 1899, in the village of Karpeli, Mordovian District, Tambov Region. After the victory of the October Revolution he was elected, in his native village, secretary of the Committee of Village Poor Peasants and secretary of the village soviet. In the spring of 1919, upon mobilization, he joined the ranks of the Red Army. In 1920 K. V. Radugin entered the Ural Mining Institute, and later transferred to the Tomsk Technological (now Polytechnic) Institute. From 1925, after graduating from the institute, he worked as a geologist and party chief in the West Siberian Geological Exploration Trust.

In 1931 Mikhail Antonovich Usov invited Konstantin Vladimirovich to work at the Department of General Geology of the Tomsk Technological Institute. In 1937 K. V. Radugin defended his candidate’s dissertation and was confirmed in the academic rank of docent; in 1941, after defending his dissertation, he was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, and in 1942 he was confirmed in the academic rank of professor in the Department of General and Dynamic Geology. From 1939 he headed the work of this department, and in 1967, at his own request, was relieved of the duties of department head; since that time he has worked as a professor of the department.

Having inherited the finest scientific traditions of the geological school founded by academicians V. A. Obruchev and M. A. Usov, K. V. Radugin takes an active part in geological investigations of Western Siberia and its individual regions: Salair, Mountain Altai, Mountain Shoria, the Western and Eastern Sayan Mountains, Kuzbass, the Kuznetsk Alatau, and others. In his research he concentrates chiefly on solving the problem of the stratigraphic subdivision of the Precambrian, on questions of tectonics and mineral resources, and on developing new methods of geological investigation. The problem of subdividing the Precambrian formations of the Earth’s crust into systems is one of the most important problems of world geology. Its successful resolution has great practical significance, arising from the disclosure of the regularities in the structure of the Earth’s crust and the regularities in the distribution of mineral resources. K. V. Radugin is a pioneer in solving this problem. For more than 30 years he has purposefully studied unique sections of Late Precambrian strata distributed across the territory of Western Siberia.

Studying Precambrian strata, K. V. Radugin established a large number of previously unknown forms of fossil organisms, was the first to discover Vendian deposits in the Precambrian on the territory of the USSR, and identified a new group of fossil organisms—protoarcheocyathids.

As a result of the work carried out, a basis was prepared for the subdivision and intercontinental correlation of the Proterozoic. The results of K. V. Radugin’s studies constitute a major achievement of Soviet geology.

K. V. Radugin achieved significant success in developing new methods of geological research that increase the efficiency of geologists’ work. He developed and introduced into practice the method of relict tectonic structures, which makes it possible reliably to record, in the history of the development of the earth’s crust, interruptions in sediment accumulation and the manifestation of phases of tectogenesis; theoretical foundations were developed for the search for “hidden” deposits by secondary endogenous (magmatic, emanation, and tectonic) dispersion halos; developments were provided for the diagnosis of disjunctives, etc.

K. V. Radugin has published more than 100 works, and has written dozens of geological reports. A large number of his manuscripts exist.

K. V. Radugin discovered the large Usinsk manganese deposit. He took part in the discovery of the Shalymsk and Tashtagol iron-ore deposits, which (together with other Gornaya Shoria deposits of magnetite ores) constitute the raw-material base of the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Combine.

K. V. Radugin conducts his research in close cooperation with teams of production geologists, constantly assisting production workers through his consultations and direct participation in field work. From 1924 to 1957 he worked annually as the head of field parties of the West Siberian Geological Administration, Sibgeolkom, and other organizations.

Working at a higher educational institution, Professor K. V. Radugin devotes his main attention to the training of geological engineers and to the training of scientific-research and pedagogical personnel. He has taken part in the training and education of several thousand geologists, has trained dozens of Candidates of Sciences, and has helped many with his advice in completing doctoral dissertations.

Along with carrying out production, educational, and scientific-research work, K. V. Radugin takes an active part in the public life of the institute and the city. He has been elected more than once as a deputy of the City Soviet of Working People’s Deputies and is a permanent propagandist of knowledge.

K. V. Radugin’s fruitful scientific-research and educational work has repeatedly been recognized by the government, by regional and district organizations, by the leadership of the institute, and by the staffs of production geological institutions. He has been awarded the diploma of a laureate of the State Prize, Second Class, the Order of Lenin, three Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of the “Badge of Honor,” the medal “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945,” the medal “For Victory over Germany,” the jubilee medal “For Valiant Labor in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin,” the badge “Excellent Worker of Socialist Competition of the People’s Commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy,” the diploma and badge “Discoverer of a Deposit,” the honorary badge of the West Siberian Geological Administration “Veteran of Labor,” and many certificates of honor.

The staff of the Geological Prospecting Faculty congratulates Konstantin Vladimirovich Radugin on his 75th birthday and wishes him new creative successes.

G. A. Ivankin.