Aleksandr Chernov

{{Short description|Russian geologist and paleontologist}} {{refimprove |date=June 2025}} '''Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Chernov''' ({{langx|ru|Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Черно́в}}) was a Russian and Soviet geologist and paleontologist. He was made a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1957, and granted the title of {{ill|Honored Scientist of the RSFSR|ru|Заслуженный деятель науки РСФСР}} in 1946.

Chernov was born on July 11, 1877, in Solikamsk in the Solikamsky Uyezd of the Perm Governorate of the Russian Empire.

He published more than 140 scientific papers, mainly devoted to the study of geology and minerals of the Middle and Northern Urals, Pai-Khoi (Polar Urals), and Pechora territory.<ref>{{cite book | last=America | first=Arctic Institute of North | title=Arctic Bibliography | publisher=Department of Defense | date=1953 | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Arctic_Bibliography/Q5XxAAAAMAAJ?hl=es-419&gbpv=1&dq=Aleksandr+Chernov&pg=PA158&printsec=frontcover | access-date=2025-06-27 | page=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Barenberg | first=Alan | title=Gulag Town, Company Town: Forced Labor and Its Legacy in Vorkuta | publisher=Yale University Press | date=2014-08-26 | isbn=978-0-300-20682-1 | url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Gulag_Town_Company_Town/KOAhBAAAQBAJ?hl=es-419&gbpv=1&dq=Aleksandr+Chernov&pg=PA17&printsec=frontcover | access-date=2025-06-27 | page=}}</ref> The paleontological material he collected served as the basis for the Paleozoic stratigraphy of the western slopes of the Northern Urals and Pai-Khoi. In his early works, he studied the geology of the Kama region: "Essay on the geological structure of the environs of Solikamsk" (1888), "On the question of the conditions for the occurrence of the Kama salt-bearing strata" (1908) and others. He theoretically substantiated the existence of the Pechora coal basin.

He died on January 23, 1963, in Syktyvkar in the Komi Republic, Russia.

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