Timofey Fyodorovich Gorbachev

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Timofey Fyodorovich Gorbachev – a Russian scientist in the field of mining, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1958), and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1948). He was born on 23 June (6 July) 1900 in the village of Troitskoye (now in Shatsky District, Ryazan Oblast). Shortly thereafter the family moved to Chita, where he graduated from a real school.  

In 1919 he worked at the port of Ayan on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk on survey work for the construction of the Ayan–Nelkan route. Serving in the ranks of the Red Army, he fought on the fronts of the Civil War in Transbaikalia, in the Irkutsk area, and in operations to defeat the White Guard expedition of General Pepelyaev in Yakutia in 1923. In 1928 he graduated from the Mining Faculty of the Tomsk Technological Institute (now Tomsk Polytechnic University). From 1929 he worked at coal enterprises: he headed mining operations, and served as a designer and chief project engineer.  

From 1950 to 1954 he was rector of the Kemerovo Mining Institute, and from 1951 a professor. From 1954 he served as chairman of the West Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Novosibirsk). From 1958 to 1971 he was deputy chairman of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1958 he established and until 1972 headed the Laboratory of Mine Pressure at the Institute of Mining Geomechanics of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Timofey Fyodorovich Gorbachev died on 20 December 1973 and was buried in Novosibirsk at the Southern (Cherbuzin) Cemetery.