Mikhail Petrovich Rusakov (russian: Михаил Петрович Русаков, in Yukhnov – 24 October 1963 in

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) was a

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, academician of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. He graduated from high school with a gold medal. In 1911, he entered the Geological Department of the Petrograd Mining Institute, from which he graduated in 1921. He worked in the Ural-Siberian Division of the Geological Committee, and then in the geological department of the Kazakh branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. His main works are devoted to the study of geology and ore deposits of Kazakhstan. Rusakov discovered the following mining fields: Kounrad (copper), Semizbugskoe (corundum, andalusite) Karagaylinskoye (lead, barite), Kairaktinsky (asbestos, barite, base metals) and other mineral deposits. On 30 May 1949 Rusakov was arrested by the

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as a part of falsified "Krasnoyarsk Case". By an extrajudicial decision of the Special Council of the NKVD he was sentenced to 25 years of

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. He worked in a

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. He was freed and rehabilitated on 20 March 1954 Mineral Rusakovite, water ferrovanadate Fe5 O42 (OH) 9 • 3H2O is named after Mikhail Rusakov. There is a monument to Rusakov in the city of Balkhash erected in 1992 to commemorate the

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of the scientist and a school and a street of the city is named after him.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rusakov, Mikhail 1892 births 1963 deaths People from Yukhnovsky District People from Yukhnovsky Uyezd Russian geologists Soviet geologists Saint Petersburg Mining University alumni Gulag detainees Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery