Dr. Sci (Geology and Mineralogy), Professor (Yakutsk, Russia).
Research interests: geology of Middle Paleozoic sedimentary-volcanic deposits, Middle Paleozoic rifting.
PhD thesis: Late Mesozoic magmatic formations in the central part of the Suntar-Khayata ridge (Yakutia) (1973).
Doctoral dissertation: Middle Paleozoic magmatism and rifting in the east of the Siberian platform and the Verkhoyansk-Kolyma fold system (1992).
Igor I. Kolodeznikov is one of the leading scientists in the field of magmatic geology, who made a significant contribution to the development of problems of volcanism and rifting in the Northeast of the Asian continent. He has conducted field geological studies of the Mesozoic and Paleozoic volcanism and rifting in South Verkhoyansk, the mouth of the Lena River, Okhotsk and Kolyma-Omolon regions.
Igor I. Kolodeznikov showed that the Middle Paleozoic era was a turning point in the geological history of the Northeast Asian continent, which largely determined the further history and minerageny of the region, since the development of the Middle Paleozoic rift system led to the split of the eastern part of the ancient continent of Eurasia and the formation of the Late Paleozoic-Early Mesozoic passive continental margin.
Author of 130 scientific and scientific-methodical works, including 11 monographs.
Profile:
2008-2019 – President of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Yakutsk, Russia.
2001-2008 – Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Yakutsk, Russia.
1983-2008 – Associate Professor, Head of the Department, Professor, Dean of the Geological Prospecting Faculty, Yakut State University, Yakutsk, Russia.
1978-1983 – Senior Researcher, Institute of Geology, Yakutsk, Russia.
1967-1978 – Assistant, Lecturer, Associate Professor, Yakut State University, Yakutsk, Russia.
1968-1971 – Head of the Expedition, Ministry of Geology of the USSR, Yakutsk, Russia.
1966-1967 – Senior Geological Technician, Geological Engineer, Expeditions of the Yakutsk Territorial Geological Administration, Ministry of Geology of the USSR, Yakutsk, Russia.
Awards and Honors:
Honored Geologist of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (2006), Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation (2007), Honorary Citizen of the Ust-Aldan ulus (2011), Honorary Citizen of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (2018).
Professional societies: Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Higher Education, Academician of the International Academy of Mineral Resources.
