Feodósy Nikoláyevich Chernyshóv (1856 – 1914) was a geologist

Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes and history that has shaped it. Geologists usually engage in studying geology. Geologists, studying more of an applied science than a theoretical one, must approach Geology using...

 and a paleontologist. Chernyshov was an Honorary Member of Russian and Foreign Learned Societies. Graduate of St. Petersburg Mining Institute in 1880, his field surveys led him to the study of stratigraphy

Stratigraphy

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 of paleozoic

Paleozoic

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 deposits in the Ural Mountains

Ural Mountains

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. In 1892, he directed the mapping of the Donbas area and geologic maps of the southern Uraks and Timan. He later, in 1900, became the director of the Geologic Museum.