Tag - Department of Regional Geology and Minerals

IGPT employees Rafael Sungatullin and Guzal Sungatullina receive certificates of merit from the Republic of Bashkortostan

The scientists made a significant contribution to the study of the first in the Russian Federation Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points "Usolka" (age 294 million years) and "Dalniy Tyulkas" (290 million years), the so-called "golden spikes". The family team of scholars devoted several years to the study of these unique geological objects located in Bashkortostan....

Institute visited by delegation of Stroikeramika

The guests toured our laboratories and met with Institute employees. General Director of Stroikeramika LLC Artur Khusnutdinov, co-owner Emil Khusnutdinov, and Director for Development Vadim Bespalov told about their new plans to extract rottenstone. They offered KFU scientists to study rottenstone-bearing rocks in Chuvashia. "Rottenstone is very widely used in medicine, agriculture, civil engineering, and oil industry....

Shtukenberg Geological Museum opens exhibition commemorating Professor Ivan Penkov

The exhibition commemorates his 100th anniversary.   From a school bench to the war fronts Ivan Penkov (1923 - 2021) is warmly remembered as a prominent geologist, teacher, mentor, avid skier, gymnast, enthusiast fisher, and an overall good-hearted optimist. Penkov's descendants and relatives The future geologist was born in 1923 in the village of Sokolovka, Nikolskoe District, Penza Oblast. He...