O.V. PETROV (VSEGEI)

Academician А.P. Karpinsky as Geological Committee director (1885–1903). Russian scientific school of geological mapping

January 9, 2021 is the 175th anniversary of Academician A. P. Karpinsky, who was one of the organizers of the Geological Committee of Russia (GeolCom), the first elected president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925). He stood at the origins of the development of systematic geological studies in Russia and was directly involved in the formation of the national Geological Survey, the successor and keeper of the traditions of which is the A. P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute. The formation and development of the Russian scientific school of geological mapping, which is based on the combination of fundamental geological studies and systematic mapping of the country, is considered. The tendencies and problems of state geological mapping in Russia, which have been carried out for almost 140 years at three scales, are described.
Keywords: state geological mapping, geological maps, territory of Russia, continental shelf, GeolCom history, international projects.