Mikhail M. Tetyaev (1882-1956)

Abstract

Professor of the Leningrad Mining Institute, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences M.M. Tetyaev was born on September 11 (23), 1882. In 1900. M. M. Tetyaev entered St. Petersburg University at the natural department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, but in February 1901 he was expelled for participation in the student movement and by the verdict of a special meeting was surrendered to the soldiers. Soon he was released and returned to classes, and in 1902 he was again expelled from the university without the right to return.M. M. Tetyaev continued his higher education abroad at the University of Liège, at the School of Mines of the Faculty of Mechanics. There in 1911 he received the title of mining engineer, and in 1912, after defending his thesis at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, the academic title of engineer-geologist.