The main features of training specialists and raising the professional level of teachers at the Mining School - Mining Institute for the first 150 years since its foundation are considered / the role of teachers and graduates of the Institute in the organization of higher geological education in the leading mining and geological institutes of our country is emphasized The peculiarities of the system of training of engineering and geological personnel, established in the USSR in the 50-70s, which provided the mineral reserve of our country and guaranteed the basis of its economic independence, are highlighted.

The role of professors and teachers of Saint Petersburg Mining Institute in creation and formation of the first state geological institution of Russia - Geological Committee (1882-1929), in organization of geological specialty and geological prospecting faculty, perfection of preparation of engineering-geological personnel of the country is characterized. The activity of mining engineers - employees of the Geological Committee laid the foundations of the structure of the state geological service of the country, which ensured the creation of a powerful mineral resource base of the state.

A graduate of the Mining Institute, for 70 years a teacher and professor, 50 years of them head of the Department of Historical Geology, Dmitry V. Nalivkin lived a long and bright life, full of versatile and fruitful activities.

Questions of stratigraphy and geology of Devonian deposits of Central Kazakhstan for many years attracted the attention of D. V. Nalivkin.

The most important result of the study of stratigraphy of any geological region and the foundation of all geological constructions is the regional stratigraphic scheme.

Among a number of different organizations and institutions, the initiator of which was the Mining Institute, in the first place should rightly be named Geological Committee - now All-Union Order of Lenin A.P.Karpinsky Research Geological Institute (VSEGEI), the parent institution of the Ministry of Geology of the USSR ....

Deposits of the Middle Carboniferous, first established in the Zaisan fold system back in the 30's and originally assigned to the Permian, for about half a century have been the object of close attention and lively debate ...

Our country is rightly proud of remarkable scientists-geologists, but even among them there are few such as Dmitry V. Nalivkin - an outstanding pupil and successor of academicians A.P.Karpinsky, F.N.Chernyshev, A.A.Borisyak. Scientific and pedagogical activity of D.V.Nalivkin with unflagging energy continues for about seventy years ...

Among the scientific works of the outstanding modern geologist, Academician D.V.Na- livkin, a prominent place is occupied by the works devoted to the doctrine of facies. Back in 1920, D.V.Nalivkin in the Petrograd Mining Institute began reading the course he created "The doctrine of facies" ...

In this paper, the Northern Predchingizie is understood as the territory adjacent to the Chingiz Range from the north and represented by a combination of separate ridges of mountain massifs (the largest of the massifs are the Degelen Mountains) and broad valleys. In the east of the territory in the northern direction runs the valley of the Chagan River. Previously, many researchers considered this area as part of the plains of Pavlodar or Semipalatinsk Priirtyshye, which in the orographic sense is inaccurate ...

In most areas of W. Kazakhstan, the boundary between the Lower and Middle Carboniferous is indistinct, gradual, which is the reason for the allocation of local stratigraphic subdivisions, the age of which is interpreted as Upper Namur-Middle Carboniferous undissected or as Upper Namur-Middle Carboniferous ...

In the Kalba Range and the western part of the Southern Altai, coal-bearing sediments sharply dominate over other sedimentary formations. They participate in the formation of the Kalba-Narym, West Kalba and Zharma structural-formational zones, differing in the nature of their section.

On August 9, 1968, the Leningrad Mining Institute suffered a heavy loss: Vitaly I. Bodylevsky, Professor of the Department of Historical Geology, passed away. Vitaly Ivanovich gave fifty years of his life to the Mining Institute and during these long years trained and educated many hundreds of geologists, became a leading specialist in the field of paleontology and stratigraphy of the Mesozoic, a scientist of world renown.

Finding out the depths of the seas of the geological past is of undoubted interest in the preparation of lithologic-paleogeographic maps, in establishing the conditions of formation of sediments, with which a number of deposits of sedimentary minerals are associated. There is a set of methods for determining the relative depth of ancient basins. The characterization of absolute depths of ancient seas is given on the basis of the principle of actualism. In particular, L. V. Rukhin, taking into account the spread of underwater erosions and algae in modern seas to a depth of 50-70 m, believed that “... these limit values are also applicable to ancient basins, as they are determined by physical factors almost unchanged with time”. Usually, however, greater depths are allowed. Since in modern seas the edge of the shelf, characterized by optimal conditions for organic life, passes at a depth of about 200 m, it is assumed that finds of organic remains in marine sediments indicate depths of up to 200 m ...

The region under consideration is located in the western part of the Zaisan Hercynian folded region, bounded in the southwest by the Caledonian structures of the Chingiz-Tarbagatai middle mass (geoanticlinal zone of the first kind, according to V. A. Nikolaev) and in the northeast by the Charsky uplift (internal geoanticline of the second kind, according to V. A. Nikolaev) .....

In the literature on the geology of Altai there is a widespread opinion about the wide development of volcanogenic strata of porphyritic composition crowning the Upper Paleozoic section of the Kalba Ridge. This opinion is based on the works of G. I. Sokratov, who studied the Upper Paleozoic sediments of this area for a number of years. According to G. I. Sokratov, the geological structure of the Southern Kalba, where the section of the above-mentioned formations is most fully represented, includes Upper Vise-Namur (Kokpektin Formation), Middle Carboniferous (Bukonya Formation), Middle-Upper Carboniferous (Maityubinsk Formation) and Permian (Daubai Formation) sediments. The age of the Kokpektin Formation is proved by faunal finds. The Bukonya Formation is characterized by Middle Carboniferous flora. The age of the Maityubinsk Formation was determined on the basis of findings of freshwater peledipods similar to those described from the Alykaevskaya Subformation of Kuzbass. The Daubaiskaya Formation is conditionally attributed to the Permian, since no organic remains were found in it, and its relationships with the Maityubinskaya Formation have not been established anywhere. Porphyritic covers are identified at the base of the Maityubinsk Formation (C2-C3), as well as in the uppermost parts of this formation in the Kulambai Mountains. The main mass of the Kalba volcanogenic formations is allocated to the Daubai Formation (P).