Yevgeny Leonidovich Krinov (russian: Евгений Леонидович Кринов) (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 (russian: Отъяссы) village in the

Morshansky District Morshansky District (russian: Морша́нский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #72-Z and municipalLaw #232-Z district (raion), one of the twenty-three in Tambov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast and borders Shat ...

of the Tambov Governorate 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 (occasionally also called the Tunguska incident) was an approximately 12-megaton explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of June 30, ...

under the supervision of

Leonid Kulik Leonid Alekseyevich Kulik (Russian: Леонид Алексеевич Кулик; 19 August 1883 – 14 or 24 April 1942) was a Soviet mineralogist who is noted for his research into meteorites. He was born in Dorpat, (now Tartu, Tartu County, ...

. 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

to the

as part of an effort to dispose of hazardous nitrate film. Positive imprints were preserved for further studies in the Russian city of

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Science awards

* 1961 - Doctor honoris causa awarded by Soviet Academy of Sciences * 1971 -

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Legacy

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, discovered in 1977 by

astronomer

Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh (russian: Никола́й Степа́нович Черны́х) (6 October 1931 – 25 May 2004Казакова, Р.К. Памяти Николая Степановича Черных'. Труды Государст ...

, 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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