THE MOST PRODUCTIVE KYIV PERIOD OF ACADEMICIAN YEVHEN LAZARENKO'S CREATIVE ACTIVITY IN THE FIELD OF MINERALOGY

Abstract

The scientific achievements of Academician Yevhen Lazarenko during his life in Kyiv (1969–1978) are briefly analyzed. Significant achievements in the field of regional, genetic, applied and general mineralogy, formation of the concept of ways of mineralogy development, creation of a powerful Ukrainian regional mineralogical scientific school, establishment of two active structures – Ukrainian Mineralogical Society (UMS) and the Department of Regional and Genetic Mineralogy at the Institute of Geological Sciences of the UkSSR Academy of Sciences (in 1972 the Department was transferred to the Institute of Geochemistry and Physics of Minerals, now the M. P. Semenenko Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Ore Formation of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) are connected with this period. One of the best Ukrainian-language textbooks on mineralogy (1970) and its Russianlanguage analogue (1971), as well as the Ukrainian-Russian-English “Mineralogical Dictionary” (1975, co-author O. Vynar) were published. A new professional periodical was founded – “Mineralogical Journal” (1979) as well as two periodical thematic collections – “Mineralogy of Sedimentary Formations” and “Regional and Genetic Mineralogy”. One of Ye. Lazarenko's activities were the organization of regular mineralogical forums. They were diverse in form and content, but they certainly discussed topical issues of mineralogy in Ukraine and in general. The scientist personally organized and successfully held two congresses of UMS, eight different meetings on various topics, many scientific meetings of UMS. The Kyiv period of Ye. Lazarenko's activity includes a rather original world-class genetic generalization “Experience of Genetic Classification of Minerals” (1979), six collections of scientific works edited by him, dozens of scientific articles and four collective fundamental regional mineralogical monographs (1973–1981), which are still the textbooks of geologists.