Vadim D. Nikitin (1915-1969)

Abstract

The multifaceted and fruitful pedagogical and scientific activity of Vadim D. Nikitin, Professor of the Department of Mineralogy, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, is closely connected with the Leningrad Mining Institute, where he became a major scientist, a great connoisseur of minerals, a brilliant researcher of pegmatites.