- Feodosy Chernyshov
Feodósy Nikoláyevich Chernyshóv (1856-1914) was a
geologist and apaleontologist . Chernyshov was an Honorary Member of Russian and Foreign Learned Societies. Graduate of St.Petersburg Mining Institute in 1880, his field surveys led him to the study ofstratigraphy ofpaleozoic deposits in theUral Mountains . In 1892, he directed the mapping of theDonbas area and geologic maps of the southern Uraks and Timan. He later, in 1900, became the director of the Geologic Museum.
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