Alexander Gurov

Born in 1843. After graduating from high school course of Voronezh, was some time surveyor. Doing then the physico-mathematical faculty of Kharkov University, was in 1849, after completing the course, left to prepare for a professorship in the Department of Geology. 1873 and 1874,. spent in England and France, engaged in laboratories and museums. In 1883, to protect the master's thesis, he began lecturing on geology at Kharkov University, and from 1886. at the Kharkov Institute of Technology, is a professor and present. Academic activities Gurov was sent, . mainly, . to study the geological structure and mineral resources of the Donetsk coal basin, . ancient crystalline rocks of the Dnieper area and Mariupol, Berdyansk plateau, . to what purpose they made several excursions in the area of Kharkov, . Voronezh, . Kursk, . Poltava, . Ekaterinoslav province and the Don Cossack region,
. Moreover, . to clarify certain scientific questions, . encountered in the study of the Donets Basin, . Gurov went to Podmoskovny coalfield, . western slope of the Urals and Western Siberia, . where on the banks of the Irtysh they ascertained the presence of coal deposits,
. In the field of applied geology Gurov many years took an active and direct participation in exploration for coal, iron ore and rock salt in the Ekaterinoslav Province. First in the South borehole, which opened in 1871. in Bahmut powerful reservoir of rock salt, place on his instructions, and with the close participation. Finally in 1886, under his leadership carried the same borehole in the town of Kharkov, which brought podmelovuyu artesian water. In a number of small articles and scientific communications, . Gurov written: "Geological investigations in the southern part of the Kharkov province and adjacent areas" (1869); "fossil remnants of the Donetsk coal-precipitation" (1874), "Geological outline of crystalline rocks in Mariupol and Berdyansk counties" (1880), "On the Geology Ekaterinoslav and Kharkov provinces "(1882)," The geological description of the province of Poltava "(1888),
. Most of the work Gurov printed in "Proceedings of the Kharkov Society of Naturalists."