Corresponding Member of the RAS, Dr. Sci. (Geology and Mineralogy), Professor (Yakutsk, Russia).
Research interests: Geology and metallogeny of fold-thrust areas.
PhD thesis: Structure and conditions for the localization of mineralization of the Dybinsk ore cluster (South Verkhoyansk), (1986).
Doctoral dissertation: Structure of the gold deposits in the Verkhoyansk-Kolyma orogenic region (1999).
Valery Yu. Fridovskiy developed a taxonomy of the ore fields’ structures and gold deposits of the fold-thrust areas, established a correlation between geodynamic environments and types of the ore-controlling structures, revealed evolution of the Mesozoic dynamic regimes of the formation of ore deposits, determined lateral series of the metallogenic zones, clarified the most important criteria for prospecting for orogenic gold deposits.
He is the author and co-author of 228 scientific papers, including 13 monographs, 4 textbooks and 2 patents.
Profile:
2014-present – Director, Diamond and Precious Metal Geology Institute SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia.
2013-2014 – Minister of the Vocational Education, Training and Placement of the Personnel of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Yakutsk, Russia.
2010-2013 – Vice-Rector, North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU), Yakutsk, Russia.
2006 to present – Head, Department of Prospecting and Exploration for Mineral Resources, Yakutsk, Russia .
1998-2010 – Vice-Rector, Yakut State University, Yakutsk, Russia.
1998-2003 – Head, Department of Geophysical Methods of Prospecting for Mineral Resources, Yakutsk, Russia.
1994-1998 – Chief of the Staff, Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Yakutsk, Russia.
1986-1994 – Assistant, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Yakut State University, Yakutsk, Russia.
Awards and Honors:
Honored Worker of the Higher School of the Russian Federation (2006), Honored Worker of Science of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (2010).
Awarded with the Certificate of Honor of the President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (2005), a commemorative medal “For merits in the development of geological sciences and in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Academician V.I. Smirnov "(2010), the medal of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)" For services in the development of science of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) "(2010).
Professional societies: Chairman of the Academic Council of the IGABM Institute, Scientific Council for Geosciences of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Presidium of the YSC SB RAS, Scientific and Technical Council under the President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Member of the Editorial Board of the Vestnik NEFU.
