Yevgeny Leonidovich Krinov () (3 March 1906 – 2 January 1984), D.G.S., was a

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Russian

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and

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, born in Otyassy () village in the Morshansky District of the

Tambov Governorate Tambov Governorate () was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire, the Russian Republic, and the Russian SFSR, with its capital in Tambov. It was located between 51°14' and 55°6' north latitude, north and betwee ...

of the

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. Krinov was a renowned

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researcher; the mineral Krinovite, discovered in 1966, was named after him.

Scientific work

From 1926 through 1930 Yevgeny Krinov worked in the meteor division of the Mineralogy Museum of the

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. During this period he conducted research into the

Tunguska event The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 TNT equivalent, megatons that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908. The explosion over ...

under the supervision of Leonid Kulik. Krinov took part in the longest expedition to the Tunguska site in the years 1929–1930 as an astronomer. The data that was gathered during this expedition became the basis for his 1949 monograph (in Russian) called '' The Tunguska Meteorite''. In 1975, Yevgeny Krinov ordered the burning of 1500 negatives from a 1938 expedition by Leonid Kulik to the

as part of an effort to dispose of hazardous

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. Positive imprints were preserved for further studies in the Russian city of

Tomsk Tomsk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, on the Tom (river), Tom River. Population: Founded in 1604, Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia. It has six univers ...

Science awards

* 1961 -

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awarded by Soviet Academy of Sciences * 1971 -

Leonard Medal The Leonard Medal honors outstanding contributions to the science of meteoritics and closely allied fields. It is awarded by the Meteoritical Society The Meteoritical Society is a non-profit scholarly organization founded in 1933 to promote res ...

Legacy

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, 2887 Krinov, discovered in 1977 by

astronomer

Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh ( rus, Никола́й Степа́нович Черны́х, , nʲɪkɐˈlaj sʲtʲɪˈpanəvʲɪtɕ tɕɪrˈnɨx, links=yes; 6 October 1931 – 25 May 2004Казакова, Р.К. Памяти Николая Сте ...

, is named after him.

Selected bibliography

* 1947 '' Spectral Reflective Capacity of Natural Formations'' * 1949 '' The Tunguska Meteorite'' (Russian) * 1952 '' Fundamentals of Meteoritics'' * 1959 '' Sikhote-Alin Iron Meteorite Shower'', Vol. I (Russian) * 1963 '' Sikhote-Alin Iron Meteorite Shower'', Vol. II (Russian) * 1966 '' Giant Meteorites''

References

External links

A list of people from Tambov, Russia, briefly mentioning Yevgeny Krinov

A short biography of Yevgeny Krinov
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