Pyatnitskii Porfiry Petrovich

Born in 1860. At the end of the course at the Kharkov University (1886) was left as an assistant at the department of geology, and to protect the master's thesis was sent abroad. Since 1893, he lectured at the Kharkiv University as privat-docent. In 1898 he defended his doctoral dissertation. In 1901 he was appointed extraordinary, and in 1905 - full professor of mineralogy. Major works: "An Investigation of the delta of the Western Dvina" ( "Proceedings of the Society of Spanish. nature of the Kharkov University ")," Investigation of Cretaceous sediments in the basin. Don and the left tributaries of River. Dnipro "(ibid., 1890)," Investigation of crystals kermezita and uranotile "(ibid., 1893);" Hydrogeological study Verhnedniprovsk County Ekaterinoslav province "(ed. Yekaterinoslav provincial zemstvo, 1895), "Investigation of schists steppe belt of southern Russia" ( "Proceedings of the Kharkov Society of Naturalists, 1898)," Geological investigations in the central Caucasus