Tag - Geologist Day
05Apr

On 60th celebration of Geologist Day in Russia, scholars explain how the science has changed during the decades

This professional holiday was established in 1966. "Geology has undergone colossal changes. In the 1960s, firstly, the technologies we have today didn't exist, and secondly, geology faced completely different challenges," says Danis Nurgaliev, Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences. "Russia's vast territory was still poorly explored. At that time, a 200,000 survey (a geological survey at a scale...

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08Apr

Geologist Day celebrated at the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies

Danis Nurgaliev, Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences, congratulated the students. He shared memories of his student internships and expeditions. “A geologist is a special person because he looks at nature with different optics,” he noted. "Any piece of land has everything, just in very small quantities - gold, diamonds, meteorites, rare earth metals.” The most interesting thing in...

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06Apr

Danis Nurgaliev: “We are using the method that I invented in my student years to look for oil”

On Geologist Day (first Sunday of April), Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences, Distinguished Scientist of Russia and Tatarstan, Doctor of Sciences in Geology in Mineralogy, Professor Danis Nurgalev speaks about his life in science and the current affairs at the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies. "When I was a kid, in our village of Tatyshly in...

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