Feodosy Chernyshyov
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Chernyshev F. N.
Feodosy Nikolayevich Chernyshov (Russian: Феодо́сий Никола́евич Чернышёв; 24 September [O.S. 12 September] 1856 – 15 January [O.S. 2 January] 1914) was a geologist and a paleontologist. Chernyshov was an Honorary Member of Russian and Foreign Learned Societies.
Early life[]
Graduate of the St. Petersburg Mining Institute in 1880, his field surveys led him to the study of stratigraphy of paleozoic deposits in the Ural Mountains.
In 1892, he directed the mapping of the Donbas area and geologic maps of the southern Urals and Timan Ridge. He later, in 1900, became the director of the Geologic Museum.
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- 1856 births
- 1914 deaths
- Full members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- Scientists of the Russian Empire
- Saint Petersburg Mining University alumni
- Scientists from Kyiv
- Geologists from the Russian Empire
- Paleontologists of the Russian Empire
- Graduated of the St. Petersburg Mining Institute (until 1917)
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