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Ivan Gubkin

Ivan Gubkin is a earth science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Ivan Gubkin rather than just read about it. In short: Ivan Mikhailovich Gubkin (Russian: Ива́н Миха́йлович Гу́бкин; September 21 [O.S. September 9] 1871 – 21 April 1939) was a Russian and Soviet geologist and president of the 1937 International Geological Congress in Moscow.

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Reference excerpt

Ivan Mikhailovich Gubkin (Russian: Ива́н Миха́йлович Гу́бкин; September 21 [O.S. September 9] 1871 – 21 April 1939) was a Russian and Soviet geologist and president of the 1937 International Geological Congress in Moscow. He was a petroleum geologist particularly interested the region between the Volga and the Urals. Gubkin was born to a poor farmer's family in the Belgorod area in the South of Russia. In 1895, aged 24 he moved to Saint Petersburg, but, due to the lack of money, could only enroll to a teachers institute. Only in 1903, he could enter the Petersburg Mining Institute. During his studies there, and after graduation in 1910, he worked at Maykop, Kuban, Taman and Absheron oil fields. In 1920 Gubkin was appointed to lead a government commission that was tasked to study the origin of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly. The commission proved the relation between the anomaly and the nearby iron ore deposits. In 1921, Gubkin joined the Communist Party. He was elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1929, and served as its vice-president from 1936 to 1939. Gubkin's book "The Study of Oil" (1932) developed theory on the origins of oil and the conditions necessary for the formation of oil deposits, and laid out the principles of oil geology. He led the studies of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly from 1920 to 1925, which eventual led to the discovery of huge iron deposits. Gubkin was the editor of the journal Problems of Soviet Geology. During the first and second Five-Year Plans, he was chairman of the "Production Committee" of the Academy of Sciences (1930–1936). In 1936 he became Vice President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Gubkin died in Moscow in 1939, and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery. Gubkin was well known to American geologists, as Goubkin. He attended the Annual Fieldtrip of the American Association of State Geologists in 1917, and was the only member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists from the Soviet Union.

Named in his honor

Academician Gubkin Prize for accomplishment in petroleum science and engineering (1949–present) Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas Gubkin, a town in Belgorod Oblast, Russia Gubkinsky, a town in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region of Russia Gubkina Street in Belgorod, Grozny, Kazan, Krasnodar, Moscow, Murom, Novocherkassk, Novyi Urengoi, Omsk, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg and other sities.

References

Further reading Solov'Ev, Yu. Ya. (2007). "On the 125th birthday of Dmitrii Ivanovich Mushketov (1882–1938)". Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation. 15 (4): 443–448. Bibcode:2007SGC....15..443S. doi:10.1134/S0869593807040090. S2CID 128791381.

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Ivan Gubkin

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Ivan Gubkin claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In earth science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Ivan Gubkin before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Ivan Gubkin ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Ivan Gubkin

In research: Ivan Gubkin appears in earth science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Ivan Gubkin in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Ivan Gubkin is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1871 births, 1939 deaths, Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Ivan Gubkin outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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