Geologist Day
Description:
Geologist’s Day was established to commemorate the merits of Soviet geologists in the creation of the country’s mineral resource base by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 31, 1966.
It is celebrated annually on the first Sunday of April.
The initiators of the appeal to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR were a group of prominent Soviet geologists led by academician A.L. Yanshin. And the reason for the appeal was the discovery in 1966 of the first fields of the West Siberian oil and gas province.