Vladimir Sobolev

Soviet geologist (1908–1982)

Vladimir Stepanovich Sobolev (Russian: Владимир Степанович Соболев; 30 May 1908 – 1 September 1982) was a Soviet geologist, petrologist and mineralogist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1966), Hero of Socialist Labour (1978), and laureate of the Lenin Prize and the Stalin Prize.²

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Born May 30, 1908, died Sep 1, 1982.¹

About

He was one of the founders of modern Soviet petrology and metamorphic geology and a pioneer in applying facies concepts to large-scale geological mapping. Sobolev was the first to predict the presence of diamond-bearing kimberlites in Eastern Siberia, a forecast later confirmed by discoveries in the 1950s.

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Companies

International Mineralogical AssociationChair 1974 to 1978¹¹

Early life and education

1930Saint Petersburg Mining University³

Sobolev was born on 30 May 1908 in Luhansk, then part of the Russian Empire.

He graduated from the Leningrad Mining Institute in 1930.

He received the Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences degree in 1938 and became a professor in 1939.

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Career

Occupation: university teacher, geologist.⁶

1974 to 1978Chair, International Mineralogical Association⁵
Date not recordedWorked at V. S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy⁴
Date not recordedWorked at Lviv University⁴
Date not recordedWorked at Saint Petersburg Mining University⁴
Date not recordedWorked at Novosibirsk State University⁴
Date not recordedWorked at Irkutsk State University⁴
Date not recordedWorked at Fersman Mineralogical Museum⁴

Work in Lviv (1945–1958)

After World War II Sobolev worked at the Institute of Mineral Resources of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and simultaneously served as head of the Chair of Petrology at Lviv State University from 1945 to 1958.

His studies during this period expanded the theoretical foundations of metamorphism, mineral equilibria and petrogenesis.

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Personal life

BornMay 30, 1908, Luhansk⁷
DiedSep 1, 1982, Moscow⁸
CitizenshipRussian Empire, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union⁹

Sister: Olga Stepanovna Soboleva 1912–1989; Wife: Olga Vladimirovna Soboleva (Poplavskaya) 1914–1969; Sons: Nikolay Sobolev 1935–2022, Evgeny Sobolev 1936–1994, Stephan Sobolev 1954, Alexander Sobolev 1954.

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Awards

1978Order of Lenin¹⁰
1976Lenin Prize¹⁰
1967Order of Lenin¹⁰
1950Stalin Prize¹⁰
Date not recordedHero of Socialist Labour¹⁰
Date not recordedMedal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"¹⁰
Date not recordedOrder of the Red Banner of Labour¹⁰
Date not recordedStalin Prize, 2nd degree¹⁰

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WikidataVladimir Sobolev: Chair, International Mineralogical Association, on Wikidata
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Early life and education

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Work in Lviv (1945–1958)

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