Yuri Apollonovich Zhemchuzhnikov (russian: Юрий Аполлонович Жемчужников; ,

Samara Samara ( rus, Сама́ра, p=sɐˈmarə), known from 1935 to 1991 as Kuybyshev (; ), is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast. The city is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Samara (Volga), Samara rivers, with ...

– 9 January 1957,

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) was a Russian and Soviet geologist.Article
in the

Great Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' (GSE; ) is one of the largest Russian-language encyclopedias, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990. After 2002, the encyclopedia's data was partially included into the later ''Bolshaya rossiyskaya e ...

He became professor at the Leningrad Mining University in 1920 and was a noted expert in petrography. The mineral

Zhemchuzhnikovite Zhemchuzhnikovite is an oxalate mineral of organic origin; formula NaMg(FeAl)C2O4·8H2O. It forms smokey green crystals with a vitreous lustre and is found in Russian coal mines. It is named after Yury Zhemchuzhnikov (1885–1957), a Russian clay ...

is named after him.Handbook of Mineralogy - Zhemchuzhnikovite
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zhemchuzhnikov, Yuri 1885 births 1957 deaths 20th-century Russian scientists Scientists from Samara, Russia Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Russian geologists Soviet geologists