Ilya Ilyich Malyshev was a

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statesman and Minister of Geology of the USSR from 1946 to 1949.

Biography

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

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and

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. From 1935 to 1937 he was a senior researcher at the

. From 1937 to 1939, he was the Deputy Head of the Main Geological Directorate of the

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

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

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

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. Earned a Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences in 1958. He was buried in Moscow at the

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. In 2006, a new mineral, Malyshevite, was named in his honor.''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.

Membership in organizations

1932 - Member of the

VKP(b) The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),. Abbreviated in Russian as КПСС, ''KPSS''. at some points known as the Russian Communist Party (RCP), All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet ...

Awards

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (, ) was an award named after Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the October Revolution. It was established by the Central Executive Committee on 6 April 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration bestowed by the Soviet ...

Order of the October Revolution The Order of the October Revolution (, ''Orden Oktyabr'skoy Revolyutsii'') was instituted on 31 October 1967, in time for the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was conferred upon individuals or groups for services furthering communis ...

Order of the Red Banner of Labor The Order of the Red Banner of Labour () was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to the Soviet state and society in the fields of production, science, culture, literature, the arts, education, sports ...

(three times).

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Malyshev, Ilya Soviet geologists 20th-century Russian geologists 1904 births 1973 deaths Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the October Revolution