The Ministry of Geology (Mingeo; russian: Министерство геологии СССР) was a
government ministry
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in the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
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Established as Committee for Geology in 1939; renamed Ministry of Geology in 1946; responsible for the exploration and surveying of the geological resources of the USSR, the expansion of proven mineral reserves, and the development of new technology. In September 1987 the Ministry changed from union-republic ministry to all-union ministry.
List of ministers
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Ilya Malyshev (14.6.1946 - 11.4.1949)
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Pyotr Zakharov (11.4.1949 - 15.3.1953)
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Pyotr Antropov (31.8.1953 - 24.2.1962)
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Aleksandr Sidorenko (27.2.1962 - 29.12.1975)
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Yevgeny Kozlovsky (29.12.1975 - 17.7.1989)
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Grigory Gabrielyants (17.7.1989 - 24.8.1991)
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Geology
Geology () is a branch of natural science concerned with Earth and other astronomical objects, the features or rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Ear ...
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