Tag - Department of Regional Geology and Minerals

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...