Of GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE Of PRIMORSKI KRAI by Valentina SOLYANIK, senior researcher and head of the exhibition sector of the Geological and Mineralogical Museum of the Far-Eastern Geological Institute, RAS Far-Eastern Branch (Vladivostok) Founded in 1978 the Geological and Mineralogical Museum of the Far-Eastern Geological Institute, RAS Far-Eastern Branch, is unrivaled in wealth and imposingness of collections in the region. It keeps in store almost 12,000 specimens reflecting a variety of rocks, minerals and ores of the continental part of the Far East and the Pacific Ocean floor. Most of them are materials from archives used by paleontologists, mineralogists and petrographers in their scientific work. The permanent exposition displays about 1,500 rare and unique historical monuments of stone, which make it possible to disclose deeply and thoroughly its geology and evolution of its organic world, to see an integrity, harmony and diversity of natural processes and get an objective idea of the ever-changing planet. For 35 years of its existence the museum became a well-known cultural and educational institution of Vladivostok, and it is visited annually at least by a thousand people from such countries as Japan, China, Korea, USA, Sweden, Ireland, Germany and other countries. A GLIMPSE AT THE HISTORY The development of the first in the region museum of a mineralogical profile is intimately connected with the history of the RAS Far-Eastern Geological Institute founded in 1959. Its stocks represent a methodical, educational and historico-aesthetic interest and are based on collections of a stone material sampled by the institute specialists during long-term field expeditions and research of the Pacific folded belt, the biggest marginal land part of the earth's crust with an increased concentration of mineral deposits. Originally it was just a sample storehouse. Later the institute workers alongside with scientific research set about a ... Читать далее