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The G-to-G contact information

Please use the following G-to-G contact information:

memorial@g-to-g.com

If you want to breathe a new life into old geological photos or perpetuate the memory of your friends, relatives, and colleagues who were geologists, you could send to us photos with few comments anytime.

We do not sell, share, or otherwise disclose your personal information without your consent.

We are welcome any information about geology and about geologists.

It is our sincere hope that G-to-G will provide additional information about Russian geological community and clarify some of the misunderstandings concerning Russian geological and exploration practice, mining laws which have the origin in pre-revolutionary Russia and continued "to develop" during the Soviet time, and after USSR collapse ...

We are trying to let know to the English speaking geological community about lot of Soviet and Russian mapping and exploration geologists, geophysicists, and prospectors who had never used to travel outside of Russia (Soviet Union) and had never any opportunity to share their geological experience with English-speaking colleagues.

We are welcome your feedback on G-to-G.

memorial@g-to-g.com

feedback@g-to-g.com

info@g-to-g.com

We are not sell or give your e-mail address or any other contact information to any third parties for any reason.

Best regards and thanks for your feedback!

Svetlana Tikhomirova, PhD of geological and mineralogical sciences

P.S. We are (simple Russians) not very incomprehensible for you because of our black humor, the state’s systemic indifference to health and safety, and in general for being so intolerably fatalistic ...

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The G-to-G Web pages contents

Please do not ever copy any of the G-to-G.com web-pages content.

The G-to-G Web pages content changes any time and constantly. Web pages are updated daily. Visitors are solely responsible for use of the G-to-G web-pages content. Link to the pages instead.

The quotations we use are from different sources, including the Bible, New International Webster's Pocket Quotation Dictionary of the English Language (1998 Edition), movies, Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia), magazines, and books which are provided in the footnotes References.

Information on this website may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors because it is a manual creation. G-to-G does not guarantee, or make any warranty express or limited, that the G-to-G Web pages content is current, accurate, complete or reliable. We provide the sources of translated information. Please make a check in case you need text for dissertation or thesis.

The information contained in G-to-G Web pages serves as a guide only and shall not be liable for any accidents, injury, irregularity, loss or damage caused by or arising as a result of information contained within the G-to-G Web site.

Information about the repressed, perished and dead geologists, workers, prospectors, and miners gathered from various sources. Versions of articles are regularly updated and supplemented by the new data.

Translation of articles from Russian to English is made by G-to-G author. We apologize in advance for any mistakes in the translation of articles, and also thank everyone who sends specific information about their loved ones.

We have provided links from G-to-G to several other web sites also. The visitors should be aware that in linking to these outside web sites, they are leaving the G-to-G Web site.

We greatly appreciate the assistance of Vadim J. Birstein, Doctor of Biology, genetics (www.vadimbirstein.com), member of the human rights movement in Moscow in the 1970s-80s, the author of The Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001; 2004; 2008), in selecting materials for the G-to-G.

Best regards and thanks for your cooperation!

Svetlana Tikhomirova, PhD

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Thanks for your feedback and help

Your support is very important for us. Our job is a manual just by "four hands" and by comments of different people from various places with the aid of Internet.

We do all of our best to let know about "army" of Russian geologists who will never came back from expeditions, fields, mines, trips, and traverses - from their's own Yukons and Territories

All of us used wear in the same look khaki uniform during the geological expeditions. But each of us was an unique while research and mapping process.

Your understanding of how was carried out the geological surveys in the USSR, is based only on the joint geological excursions with the RAS staff.

In Russia, along with the search for missing people after the Second World War, continues the search for citizens, innocent convicted and disappeared between 30-60-ies.

Among these people are prominent geologists, who have been victims of mass repressions in the USSR.

... Step by step we will translate the stories about the Russian "Klondike" which did not stop even after the Stalin's death...

Those unknown authors of geological maps, reports and pioneering fields of the former USSR.

memorial@g-to-g.com

feedback@g-to-g.com

info@g-to-g.com

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Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:09 PM
To: info@g-to-g.com
Subject: Thank you

Good evening, Svetlana,

..., I am a daughter of the repressed (Lubyanka, Sakhalin, Siberia), but survived geologist, professor Konstantin Vladimirovich Bogolepov. I will write you more and will send some photographs later. I just want to thank you very much for this site. No words ...

Bcero xopoweго
Olga

Dr. Olga K. Bogolepova
CASP
University of Cambridge

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Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 12:02 AM
To: info@g-to-g.com
Subject: on the site G-to-G

Dear Svetlana! I stumbled on your site and read it with interest. In the process found a bug and decided to help you fix it. The information on the repression of the oil industry incorrectly written the name - not "Strukov", but Strizhov.

There was Ivan Nikolaevich Strizhov a director of the Petroleum Directorate of the Glavgortopa at the Supreme Economic Council and he was arrested on June 1, 1929.

Sincerely,
Yuri E.

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To: info@g-to-g.com
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2010 9:38 AM
Subject: Keep the faith

... As I am looking at all this "regulation and paperwork" I am wondering if this reminds you of another place we both have lived? ... I am sick about this situation for all my Russian friends who immigrated to Canada or the US ...!

Keep the faith ... keep smiling and do NOT stop what you are doing. Enjoy life ...

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To: info@g-to-g.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 3:21 PM
Subject: More on I.I. Fedorovich

Dear Svetlana!

I am a historian, and because of my subject (my colleagues and I are now preparing a collection of documents on the "Shakhty Case") more than once appealed to your site, and so happy to help you.

Searching for information about More on I.I. Fedorovich, I found on the site of "Memorial" a sad news about the fact that of the second arrest was the result of the shooting

With best regards and wishes for continued success, Svetlana Ushakova, PhD (History Sciences).

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To: info@g-to-g.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 1:23 PM
Subject: Svetlane Tikhomirovoy

Svetlana - Hello,

Here is writing to you Irina Gracheva, a granddaughter of the repressed rector of the LGI (Lenigradsky Mining Institute), Nikolai Vasil'evich Grachev.

According to our family legend, Nikolai Vasil'evich was arrested, because he forbid to burn the works of Russian repressed geologists. Tutorials, by the order of NKVD, were burned in the courtyard of the Lenigradsky Mining Institute and Nikolai Vasil'evich demanded an immediate halt this vandalism, because to teach students without books would be impossible.

He did not died in the torture chamber, but was exiled to the Kazakhstan, worked on the search for coal, unless I am mistaken, and died on the platform on the road trip, I think in 1948. He was not yet 60, has denied the heart.

My father, Yuri Grachev, deputy chief of geophysical department of the Ministry of Geology USSR, died in 1978. Yuri Grachev (my dad) told me that when my grandfather [Nikolai Vasil'evich Grachev] was arrested, he (my dad) was a student of the Lenigradsky Mining Institute - and he had a meeting with his father [N. Grachev] in prison.

Nikolai Vasil'evich Grachev told to my father: :You have to give up on me, but then you are thrown from the institute. We were going to know - what is it - not so, but you need to do it, or you will never be able to get an education. Dad did so, after having consulted about this decision with his closest friends - and they supported him. But the rest people stopped to greet with Yuri.

My father (Yuri Grachev) is no longer 32 years, his dad and my grandfather Nikolai Grachev - died 10 years before my birth.

While alive, my mother - she would help me, I will try to find attesting materials and photos.

A link to your site gave me Gregory Litinsky. I sit and read as Russia had devoured the best of their sons and daughters ... Scary ...

Thank you very much for the incredible work on the creation of the Memorial geologists.

With great respect,

Irina Gracheva

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To: Svetlana Tikhomirova
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 9:55 AM
Subject: your website

Sveta: ... A friend here in Fairbanks, Pavel Isbekov, teaches volcanology here at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He will leave this week for a 6 weeks in the Valley of the 10,000 Smokes on the alaska Peninsula and then will travel to Petrapavlovsk K. for 6 weeks on Kamchatka.

I gave him you website and he was shocked! Interesting ...

OK dearie ... keep smiling.

The Older but Wiser Prospector

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To: memorial@g-to-g.com
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 3:19 PM
Subject: Story about geologist P.A. Borukaev (1899-1967)

Dear Svetlana!

I am sending to you a documentary story about my father (rus). I hope it will fit into your website. Attached 5 photos ...

Margarita Borukaeva

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Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 1:13 AM
To: memorial@g-to-g.com
Subject: in my town exploded the mine

On May 10, 2010 - in the night of 8 to 9 May in my city happened tragedy: in my town exploded the mine "Raspadskaya". The mine "Raspadskaya" - the largest in Russia and one of the largest in the world, equipped with modern technology. Numerous contracts with foreign investors (such as Bank of America) and world leaders in production of mining and controlling equipment (eg Joy and Caterpillar). ...

http://www.rian.ru/society/20100511/233189672.html

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Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:59 PM
To: memorial@g-to-g.com
Subject: Peter Ernestovich Kalnin

Hello Svetlana!

I am sending to you materials that got about Peter from Kazakhstan. Unfortunately there were some misunderstandings about some sentence. But what is that still unclear. After Peter was sent to the Karaganda, more than ever his family with him never saw him. And on a story by the dad, Peter, actually at the beginning, was not even in camp, he worked on the construction of the mine. Then, as if it were some new arrests, because by any rumors that happened and there wrecking, but whether he was arrested again no one knows. His fate was not ascertained by us until the now ...

Ludmila S.

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Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 10:10 PM
To: memorial@g-to-g.com
Subject: Letter

Hello Svetlana!

I saw on your site information about my father
Bykov Ivan Grigorievich (1917-1992), but without the photo. Am sending to you the photographs from the archives of our family.

I am very grateful for the memory of my father. Ready to provide all necessary information and photos available to.

Today I have visited the monument to the soldiers-geologists of the Severouralsk Geological Expedition (SUGRE) to have a picture ...

This is the reality of our lives.

While the expedition SUGRE was alive the monument was looked, and now nobody needs ...

Signs with names of soldiers-geologists ripped off and were sold into scrap metal, remained just one only and the almost unreadable.

... In order to somehow fix the damage caused to the monument of soldiers-geologists I send you list of names of the war veteran, who were supposed to be on it. I have them reprinted from the city Book of Memory.

There are the names all who died during the Second Wortld War and did not return.

Also, I'm sending the pictures of our student's group and about the first years of work in Severouralsk Geological Expedition.

Anatoly Bykov
rock drilling engineer
grandson of repressed Grigori Ivanovich Bykov
son of the war veteran Ivan G. Bykov

Monument to Geologists of the Severouralsk Expedition, who killed in the Second World War courtesy of Anatoliy - son of Ivan Bykov, veteran of WW II 1985		Monument to Geologists of the Severouralsk Expedition, who killed in the Second World War courtesy of Anatoliy - son of Ivan Bykov, veteran of WW II 2010

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Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:47 AM
To: feedback@g-to-g.com
Subject: Dr. Svetlana Tikhomirova

Hi Svetlana!

Came upon the site of Memorial Book, strongly written. I still have some photos with
Anna Danilovna and Sonin, as well as with you. If you are interested I can send its to you, just not sure that this is your correct address box.

Sergey Sh.

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Sent: Friday, December 25, 2009 12:23 PM
To: info@g-to-g.com
Subject: Greetings

Hi Lana:

I looked briefly at your web site of geology. It's nice information about that life in the field. You look great!

I would like to say Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, a lot of happiness and healt to the new year!

Yanka

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Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:59 PM
To: info@g-to-g.com
Subject: Privet

Hello Sveta,

In first I want to congratulate you on maintaining such a classic and wonderful website, I am impressed the way you work on your website. I am Arshad Ali from Pakistan a Geology graduate from Peshawar university Pakistan, I came back from Russia on 09-09-09 yes just few days ago, going to Russia as geologist was a dream for me specially when i read about Ural mountains and Magadan and many other stuff about Russia while studying at university, i was invited to work for a Mineral exploration company (Dealing with copper and gold reserve estimation), I stayed there for almost 9 months at Chelyabinsk city. Before going there my director ask me if i could help them with geological terminologies and some other stuff related to geology, i agreed, i dont know why but some how i was thinking Russians do all of thier geological work in English, (as in my country our national language is Urdu but all business work we do in English), anyway i went there with hopes of learning, i was promised manythings (which they did for me) but because of language i got alot of problems, and i was so sad and surprised to see Russians geologists knows alot about geology they are intelligent they have good research skills, but they dont know English and because of this they cant convey thier message to the world neither they can use international literature which can help and improve them as geologist, sometimes i even cry why I came to Russia if i dont know Russian? i try to help them with English, i mean related to geology but only my director seems to be intrested in learning english so i help her she ask all of the people in office to speak to me and try to learn from me english so they can work in multicultural environments and they can have oppertunity to work abroad, but no one was ready to speak with me no one was in mood of learning english language, i know my colleagues in office who were of the same age (24) were lazy and afraid when they speaking to me... and later in May most of our projects stopped, and it further dent my plans to stay there, i tried to learn Russian language but i know only basics as i didnt have time to study in institute, i learn some softwears in english which i arrannge for myself, like Arc view GIS etc, but i dont know anything about ore deposits as everything was purely in Russian as you know it,...

Well in short it was wonderful trip for me i knew much about Russia inside, but i hope your government can make some good plans to overcome this problems, Russian geologists are best as for as i see, but they need to communicate to the whole world...as geology has no boundaries...I wish you success in life......Take care

Arshad Ali

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Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 12:18 AM
To: memorial@g-to-g.com
Subject: Kalnin Peter

Dear founders of the Web site!

After reading the information about our ancestor - Kalnin Peter Ernestovich wanted to add a photo. Photo from his case (the other we have unfortunately not) ... We are now trying to reconstruct the history of our family in which there are two brothers were subject to repression - Ans and Peter. Unfortunately we have few documents from the family archives. Most of information is from the oral reminiscences only. And now with the Ineta help, we can lift the veil of secrecy and learn of what we did not know about them. If you have yet any information about him will be glad to your message.

Ludmila S.

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Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 9:27 PM
To: info@g-to-g.com
Subject: Nice site

Hi

In the early 80's I spent a couple years in mining exploration. The first year, working for Rio TInto near Ft. Ware looking for lead/zinc. A small camp of ten people with a helicopter. One day a geologist hitched a ride into camp on our Otter supply plane.

The Geological Survey of Canada had dropped him and another geologist off at a lake with tents and supplies to last the season. They had to traverse and map over a thousand sq K during the season. He asked to borrow our helicopter since the government could not afford to sign a contract with a company for chopper time. They were left with the alternative of begging to borrow helicopters from the exploration camps or spend weeks carrying supplies to new sites.

Just one of the differences in how governments look at geology.

P.

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Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 1:57 PM
To: memorial@g-to-g.com
Subject: Memorial G-to-G

I am greatly impressed with your memorial site. I had no idea of the fate of these people.

Thanks.

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Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 6:49 AM
Subject: Re: questions

Sveta, hello!

This year marks the 20 already(!) years from our first Kamchatskii MGRI's field, remember?

I finally found the photos of 1989 (unfortunately just now), has chosen the best quality and sent to you - may be something will help.

Good memories of those times will stay with us always.

All good. Tanya

* MGRI a.k.a. Moscow Institute of Geological Exploration

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Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 6:53 PM
To: Info G-to-G
Subject: Re: Lotok

Dear Svetlana,

I am so pleased that you found the text acceptable. I would rather have once such kind letter about my work from a knowledgeable colleague, than many favorable reviews from magazines. It goes without saying, of course, that I could not have put that section together without your generous collaboration.

We are under contractual obligation to submit the work to Paladin Press, who has indicated their interest in this topic, although they primarily publish books on military topics. If they decide not to publish it I will do it myself (I was a book publisher from 1962-1976).

As mentioned before, I would be pleased to send you a copy as a thank you for your kindness, and I am sure I can get you some sort of "deal" on additional copies for your friends. If I end up publishing it myself, then you can have all the free copies you need!

Thank you again for helping a stranger. Remember to send me your snail-mail address to send the book.

With best regards,

Don

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Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 1:20 PM
Subject: Geologist Day

Ladies and Gentlemen: The first sunday of April is a celebration - Geologists Day. I think this is a great holiday as geologists in North American are not recognized for the contribution they have made to the betterment of mankind. So I am sending all of you very best wishes on Sunday and hope that this year brings each and everyone of you good health and continued good fortune and that you may have the opportunity to find the big one. Continued good hunting.

John Galey

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Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 3:45 AM
Subject: С Днем геолога! (rus)

Дорогие коллеги, с Днем Геолога!

С наилучшими пожеланиями,
Палечек Татьяна

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To: info@g-to-g.com
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 11:51 AM
Subject: feedback (rus)

If for each branch of industry would be the same Website... And most of all they destroyed country in the revolution, at least, for ideological reasons. In the so-called restructuring (perestroika) it is a simple robbery occurred in broad daylight because of the money.

Rumored that the rector MGRI suffered allegedly because he did not share with budget money, which provided to the Institute. But then after him was followed the new owner of the student cafeteria.

All these raider's takeovers - a cheap thuggery.

And it will indefinitely until the power is changing - most cheaper do not to change a power ...

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Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:41 AM
To: info@g-to-g.com
Subject: Vancouver RoundUp 2009

Svetlana,

I stumbled upon your website while looking for info on Larisa Popugaeva...

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Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:35 AM
To: memorial@g-to-g.com
Subject: Книга Памяти, Жертвы репрессий, уточнение от родственников

Andrei Aleksandrovich Glagolev - my Grandfather, and I want to provide the missing details of his life.

In 1966 Andrei Glagolev moved from Almaty to Kiev.

Because of moving, he replaced the post of head of mineralogical-petrographic laboratory of the Kazakh Institute of Mineral Resources for the post of Senior Research sotruzhnika Institute for superhard materials until death in 1969.

Andrei Aleksandrovich published more than 80 scientific papers and 15 inventions.

I would be grateful for any information about my Grandfather, may respond relatives.

Best regards,
Andrei Sidorov - grandson, Kiev

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Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:18 PM
To: info@g-to-g.com
Subject: Letter (rus)

Hi Svetlana!

With interest I read and reread your "letters" ... And more and more come to the conclusion that the world does not change. Especially with the world in which we were born. USSR is alive and will live a long time. Under the USSR, I mean all the things that we now have in Russia: the prosperity of corruption and crime at all levels of government ...

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Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:38 AM
To: info@g-to-g.com
Subject: From Colleen

Dear Lana,

I sure did in joy talking to you last night. You give me hope for mankind. Your web site is going to help a lot of people.

It will all so have a lasting legacy for the people who have died or have been killed. That is problem why you came to Canada so this could be done for them. You are a good person. Keep up the good work.

You are so right the children do want to know about the family and or history.

This is one thing that I know for sure. If I can help you any more please ask and I will be glad to help all I can.

Take care my dear friend and follow your heart.

Love Colleen your Friend

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Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:26 PM
To: info@g-to-g.com
Subject: feedback

Hello Svetlana.

What a nice surprise! Thank you a lot for such a great website. I could not stop reading until got to the end. Really, your story is a one about Geos of our generation - grads of 80's. Looking forward to see your website to grow up.

Sincerely, Vadim Spitsyn, B. Sc, Geo. (Bishkek-Calgary-Saskatoon-Rabbit Lake)

PS. By the way, there is an error on your contact page: info@g-to-go.com

Good Luck :-)

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References

¹ With the help of English-writing side Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

² Strishkov, V.V. THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF THE U.S.S.R. Bureau of Mines / Minerals yearbook area reports: international (1980), pp. 1003-1074

³ The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) is one of the most extensive encyclopedias produced in the U.S.S.R. Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) contains about 100 thousand articles and about 35 thousand pictures. All this wealth of information fit in 30 volumes. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) has survived three editions. The first edition was produced from 1926 to 1947. The second edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia was produced from 1950 to 1958. The third edition of BSE were produced from 1969 to 1978.

⁴ Geological Survey and Development of Mineral and Raw Material Base. Edited by A.I. Krivtsov, I.F. Migachev, G.V. Ruchkin. Moscow, TsNIGRI, 1993, 160 p. (rus)

Thank you very much for showing an interest in our web-site G-to-G. It is our sincere hope that G-to-G will provide additional information about Russian geological community and clarify some of the misunderstandings concerning Russian geological and exploration practice, mining laws which have the origin in pre-revolutionary Russia and continued to develop in Soviet time. We try to let know to English speaking geological community about lot of Russian geologists who had never used to travel outside of Russia (Soviet Union) and had never any opportunity to share their geological experience with English-speaking geological community.
Thank you, Svetlana.

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