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Gennady G. Schelochkov

(29.03.1941 – 29.10.2023)

The staff of the Research Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Bishkek city informs with deep regret that on October 29, 2023, after a long and serious illness, the Head of RS RAS Representative Office in the Russian Federation, Gennady Schelochkov, passed away/ We deeply mourns the irreparable loss.

Gennady Schelochkov stood at the origins of Research Station foundation. His activities in Research Station began in January 1983, from the position of Head of the Frunze expedition, and then he occupied the position of the Chief Engineer of Experimental-Methodological Electromagnetic Expedition of the Institute of High-Technology and Mechanics of the USSR. From 1999 to 2004, Gennady Schelochkov worked as Deputy Director of the Research Station of the Joint Institute of High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Bishkek city.

In January 2005, he was appointed as an Executive Director of RS RAS, managing the organizational, administrative and financial activities of the organization. Since July 2009, he was appointed as a Head of the Representative Office (RS RAS) in the Russian Federation, retaining the duties of Executive Director - first deputy director RS RAS in Bishkek, and since November 2015, he was assigned the duties of Head of the Representative Office of the RS RAS in the Russian Federation.

He was an outstanding organizer and made a great contribution to the development of geophysical science both in Russia and in the Central Asian region, in particular in Kyrgyzstan, was a well-known specialist in the field of complex geodynamic research, the author of 84 scientific papers, inventions and 2 useful models.

The activities of Gennady Grigorievich were highly appreciated: he was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic for high scientific achievements and assistance in strengthening scientific ties between Russian and Kyrgyz science; Certificate of Honor from the Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation for his great personal contribution to solving problems of geodynamics and geophysics, the development of Russian-Kyrgyz scientific and technical cooperation in the field of Earth sciences; Certificate of honor from the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Trade Unions of the Russian Academy of Sciences, for many years of conscientious work for the benefit of Russian science; He received a Certificate of Honor from the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations of Russia for impeccable work and high achievements in professional activities and was awarded an International Certificate from the International Research Corporation IRIS for supporting national and international seismology.

In 1990, he was elected as a Deputy of the legendary First Parliament of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan.

The staff and management of the Research Station are grateful to Gennady G. Schelochkov  for the many years of dedicated work. He was the ideological inspirer of many areas of activity of the Research Station. His extraordinary and often unexpected vision of the task at hand always created an effective basis for its successful solution.

We pay tribute and immensely mourn Gennady Grigorievich - an outstanding scientist, a talented organizer, a man of a broad soul, who devoted his entire life to serving science. We will greatly miss his kind and wise outlook on life, his advice, and his warm, fatherly attitude towards the employees of our organization. Until the last minute of his life, Gennady Grigorievich represented and defended the interests of the Research Station.

We express our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Gennady Grigorievich.

Director of RS RAS                           A.K. Rybin

IX International Symposium “PROBLEMS OF GEODYNAMICS AND GEOECOLOGY OF INTRACONTINENTAL OROGENS”

IX International Symposium “PROBLEMS OF GEODYNAMICS AND GEOECOLOGY OF INTRACONTINENTAL OROGENS”

will be held at Research Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Bishkek city, Kyrgyz Republic,  on 24 - 28 of June, 2024.

Executive organizers of Symposium:

• Research Station RAS in Bishkek, KR
• International Research Center – Geodynamic Proving Ground in Bishkek, KR

Objective of Symposium:

To discuss the state of problems and results of research in Geodynamics and Geoecology of intracontinental orogens including problems of lithosphere structure formation, development of methods, technologies and means of studying of Earth’s surface and interior, social and economic consequences of endogenous and exogenous disastrous processes.

Languages of Symposium:

Russian, English.

First informational letter_IX Symposium_2024.docx

Regional GNSS measurements in Kyrgyzstan in 2023.

This year, the field group (GSDN) of the GPS Laboratory (LGPS), based on the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) method, carried out planned field measurements of GNSS network sites in the Naryn and Issyk-Kul regions of Kyrgyzstan. Repeated surveys of the same GNSS sites in the study area make it possible to determine the high-precision position of the sites at the time of measurement and track the long-term rate of its displacement to solve fundamental geodynamic problems, as well as to assess the danger of living the population and other objects.

From May to September 2023, LGPS employees traditionally carried out two campaigns (KGS23a from 05/31/2023 to 06/30/2023; KGS23b from 08/09/2023 to 09/08/2023) to measure regional sites in the eastern part of Kyrgyzstan (Fig. 1).

News of RSF project №22-27-00567 implementation

In the "News" section of the Russian Science Foundation (RNF) website, a press release describing the electromagnetic research conducted by the staff of Research Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Bishkek city (RS RAS) at various sites of the Issyk-Ata fault (Kyrgyzstan) under the RSF project № 22-27-00567 was published.

Scientists in Kyrgyzstan have identified seismically dangerous areas of the active Issyk-Ata fault
Source: RSF Press office
Translation: RS RAS

Geophysicists have developed a geoelectric model that makes it possible to find areas in lithospheric faults where earthquakes are likely to occur. For this purpose, the authors studied the electrical properties of the earth's crust in the zone of 150-kilometer-long Issyk-Ata fault in Kyrgyzstan. The results of the study, supported by an RSF grant, were published in the scientific journal “Geophysics”.

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