On October 2, 1940, after a long and serious illness, the head of the Department of Mine Surveying at the Leningrad Mining Institute, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Ivan Mikhailovich Bakhurin, died. In 1909, after graduating from the St. Petersburg Mining Institute, I. M. Bakhurin became the first assistant of the first department of mine surveying art in Russia, which was created and headed by one of the most popular professors of the Mining Institute, V. I. Bauman. For a long time, I.M. Bakhurin was the dean of the Faculty of Surveying, and then the Mining Faculty of the Institute. In his scientific works, he elaborates on a number of important issues in surveying and magnetic prospecting. Ivan Mikhailovich was not only a great scientist, but also a talented teacher. All the main methodological documents on surveyor education in the USSR were created with his direct participation and leadership.
