Aleksandr Petrovich Karpinsky

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Portrait of Aleksandr Petrovich Karpinsky examining mineral on 1947 U.S.S.R. stamp

Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky (Cyrillic: Александр Петрович Карпинский) (1846 – 1936) was a Russian and Soviet geologist and mineralogist. He studied and taught at the Mining Institute, St. Petersburg from 1869 to 1885 . He was imperial director (1885–1916) of mining research and was elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1886. He was president from 1916 until his death. His main research was chiefly done in the Urals, and he completed the first geological map of European Russia. He was able to preserve much scientific equipment and many invaluable records during the Russian Revolution.

[edit] Named in his honor

• The mineral karpinskyite
• The lunar crater Karpinsky
• The Karpinsky Group of volcanoes on Paramushir Island in the Kurils
• Mount Karpinsky, October Revolution Island in the Severnaya Zemlya group in the Russian Arctic
• Mount Karpinsky, Urals at 1878 m lies between the Tyumen Oblast and the Komi Republic in Russia
• The town of Karpinsk on the east side of the Urals near Serov, Sverdlovsk Oblast

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