Contribution of ISU Geologists to the Study of the Botogol Graphite Deposit (Eastern Sayans)

Authors

S.V. Snopkov^1,2, A.V. Khobta³, I.A. Bogdanova¹, N.I. Shvaleva⁴

¹Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia

²Siberian School of Geosciences Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Russia

³Museum of the History of the East Siberian Railway, JSC Russian Railways, Irkutsk, Russia

⁴Irkutsk branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Territorial Fund of Geological Information for the Siberian Federal District", Russia

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Snopkov Sergey Viktorovich,

Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Associate Professor,

Karl Marx st., 1, Irkutsk, 664003, Russia,

Irkutsk State University,

Associate Professor,

91 Lermontov st., Irkutsk, 664033, Russia,

Siberian School of Geosciences Irkutsk National Research

Technical University,

Researcher,

email: snopkov_serg@mail.ru.

Khobta Alexander Viktorovich,

Candidate of Historical Sciences,

Irkutsk, Karl Marx st., 7; 664003, Russia,

Division for the Preservation of the historical heritage of the Russian Railways of the East Siberian Center for Scientific and Technical Information and Libraries - a structural division of the East Siberian Railway - a branch of JSC Russian Railways,

Researcher,

email: irk.sasha2@yandex.ru.

Bogdanova Irina Anatolievna,

664025, г. Irkutsk, Lenin st., 3,

Irkutsk State University, Faculty of Geology,

Senior Lecturer,

email: irinairk@gmail.com.

Shvaleva Nina Ivanovna,

17 Rossiyskaya st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russia,

Irkutsk branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Territorial Fund of Geological Information for the Siberian Federal District",

leading specialist,

email: shvaleva.55@mail.ru.

Abstract. The history of studying the Botogol graphite deposit has been going on for more than a century. Geologists of Irkutsk State University N.A. Florensov, M.M. Odintsov, V.S. Sobolev and V.P. Solonenko, who later became world-famous scientists, made a great contribution to understanding the genesis and structure of this unique deposit. They worked at the field during the Great Patriotic War, when graphite was a strategic raw material and the country's industry was in dire need of it.

Keywords: N.A. Florensov, M.M. Odintsov, V.S. Sobolev, V.P. Solonenko, Eastern Sayans, Botogolsky char, graphite deposit, discovery of ore bodies, genesis and structure of the deposit.

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Snopkov S.V., Khobta A.V.,I.A. Bogdanova, Shvaleva N.I. Contribution of ISU geologists to the study of the Botogol graphite deposit (Eastern Sayans) // Geology and Environment. 2024. Vol. 4, No. 4. P. 37–57. DOI 10.26516/2541-9641.2024.4.37

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