Kulik Leonid Alekseevich

Definition:

Russian and Soviet mineralogist, meteorite enthusiast

Years of life: 1883--1942

Reproduction methods:

One of the first researchers of the Tunguska phenomenon and the author of publications on meteoritics.

In 1921, on the initiative of Leonid Kulik, the Meteorite Department was created at the Mineralogical Museum. With the support of academicians V. I. Vernadsky and A. E. Fersman, together with his university friend P. L. Dravert, he organized the first scientific meteorite expedition in Soviet Russia to verify reports of meteorites falling on the country's territory received by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in Petrograd. The expedition was carried out in Siberia (in the eastern part of the Yenisei province, in the Omsk and Altai provinces) and the Saratov province, from May 19, 1921 to November 29, 1922. During the trip, Kulik showed particular interest in studying the location and circumstances of the fall of the unique Tunguska meteorite in the Podkamennaya Tunguska River basin.

In 1939, after the organization of the Committee on Meteorites at the USSR Academy of Sciences, Leonid Kulik became its first scientific secretary.
Instructor and fighter of the Red Army people's militia during the Great Patriotic War, died in captivity

Documents (2)

Fund 001 / Inventory 001 / Case 005: Метеорит etc

004. Poems: typescript and manuscript. Photographs

Includes:

a selection of typewritten copies in A4 format with poems and scenes from KSE - 17 sheets, pages are numbered, the date is written - 1972;
a notebook sheet with the text of a comic song (anthem?) of the KSE, written in pencil, to the melody of the USSR anthem;
group photo in the forest, without a caption. There are 6 people in the photo. Photo: 1970s (presumably). The man in the photo: Gennady Fedorovich Plekhanov (presumably), next to his wife Lyudmila Grigoryevna. Galina Ikonnikova is standing on the left in the photo.

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