D.K. Voznyak, CURRENT BOOK OF THE HISTORY OF MINERALOGY IN UKRAINE (Comment on the Book by Volodymyr Pavlyshyn, Orest Matkovskyi, Stanislav Dovhyi "History of mineralogy in Ukraine from ancient times to the 90s of the 20th century")

CURRENT BOOK OF THE HISTORY OF MINERALOGY IN UKRAINE (Comment on the Book by Volodymyr Pavlyshyn, Orest Matkovskyi, Stanislav Dovhyi "History of mineralogy in Ukraine from ancient times to the 90s of the 20th century")

D.K. Voznyak, DrSc (Geology), Chief Research Fellow

M.P. Semenenko Institute of Geochemistry,

Mineralogy and Ore Formation of the NAS of Ukraine

34, Acad. Palladin Ave., Kyiv, Ukraine, 03142

E-mail: dkvoznyak@ukr.net; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6124-2033

Language: Ukrainian

Mineralogical journal 2021, 43 (1): 97-100

Abstract: A monograph "History of mineralogy in Ukraine from ancient times to the 90s of the XX century" (Kyiv, 2019. 464 p.) written by Volodymyr Pavlyshyn, Orest Matkovskyi, and Stanislav Dovhyi, well-known mineralogists, was published in 2019. For the first time, it was the most comprehensive summarization of various information about the development of mineralogy in Ukraine for a long time. Prior to this work, such information was mainly concerned with individual regions of the state, scientific production institutions of a geological profile, scientific and public organizations (communities). It mostly characterized a short period of time. In this book the history of mineralogy formation in Ukraine is divided into four periods, which are substantiated with different details. However, they are all full of interest in observations and facts. The history of the formation of mineralogy in Ukraine is divided in the book into four periods, which are substantiated with different details. However, they are all full of interesting observations and facts. The main conclusion of the book confirms that the history of the formation of science is always relevant, because knowing its past; you better understand its present and, to a certain extent, foresee the ways of its development in the future.

Keywords: history of mineralogy development in Ukraine, V.I. Vernadsky, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (UAS), Ukrainian Geological Committee, the golden age of mineralogy in Ukraine.

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