The work of the successor of the Geological Committee, VSEGEI, since 1929, is characterized. Among the key events of the institution's history the following were singled out: the concentration of work on solving main national economic problems, the beginning of work on creating the first polistaya State Geological Map on scale 1:1000000, a scientific summary of the results of geological, metallogenic and methodological research for the 100th anniversary of the Geological Committee - VSEGEI, and others.
Stratigraphy is one of the fundamental branches of geological science, creating a geochronological framework, which is used both in various scientific studies, and in geological practice - without it simply can not do any branch of geology.
Among the versatile activities of the Interdepartmental Stratigraphic Committee (ISC), which has been headed by D.V.Nalivkin for 25 years, the work on the preparation of practical stratigraphic classification and unification of stratigraphic terminology and nomenclature has always been essential ...
