Sergey Smirnov (geologist)

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Sergey Smirnov
Born
Sergey Sergeyevich Smirnov

2 or 4 September [14,15 or 16 September N.S.] 1895
Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Shuysky Uyezd, Vladimir Governorate, Russian Empire
Died20 August 1947(1947-08-20) (aged 51)
Leningrad, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Alma materSaint Petersburg Mining University (1919)
Scientific career
FieldsGeology, mineralogy

Sergey Sergeyevich Smirnov (Russian: Серге́й Серге́евич Смирно́в; 2 or 4 September [14, 15 or 16 September N.S.] 1895– 20 August 1947) was a Soviet geologist and mineralogist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1943).

The ridge Dorsa Smirnov on the Moon was named after him.

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