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'''Mikhail Petrovich Rusakov''' ({{lang-ru|Михаил Петрович Русаков}}, {{OldStyleDate|20 November|1892|8 November}}, [[Yukhnov]] - 24 October 1963, [[Moscow]]) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[geologist]], academician of the [[Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences]], Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic]].<ref name="GSE">{{cite encyclopedia
| year =1969–1978
| title =Русаков Михаил Петрович
| encyclopedia =[[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]]
| url = http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/bse/128645/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2
}}</ref><ref name="ME">{{cite encyclopedia
| title =Русаков Михаил Петрович
| encyclopedia =Горная Энциклопедия
| url = http://www.mining-enc.ru/r/rusakov/
}}</ref>

He graduated from high school with a gold medal.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}} In 1911,{{citation needed|date=August 2013}} he entered the Geological Department of [[Saint Petersburg Mining Institute|Petrograd Mining Institute]], from which he graduated in 1921.<ref name="GSE"/>

He worked in the Ural-Siberian Division of the Geological Committee, and then in the geological department of the Kazakh branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.<ref name="GSE"/>

His main works are devoted to the study of geology and ore deposits of Kazakhstan.<ref name="GSE"/><ref name="ME"/>

Rusakov discovered the following mining fields: Kounrad (copper), Semizbugskoe (corundum, andalusite) Karagaylinskoye (lead, barite), Kairaktinsky (asbestos, barite, base metals) and other mineral deposits.<ref name="GSE"/><ref name="ME"/>

On 30 May 1949 Rusakov was arrested by [[NKVD]] as a part of falsified "Krasnoyarsk Case". By an [[Extrajudicial punishment|extrajudical]] decision of the [[Special Council of the NKVD]] he was sentenced to 25 years of [[Gulag|labor camps]]. He worked in a [[sharashka]] OTB-1 in [[Krasnoyarsk]]. He was freed and rehabilitated on 20 March 1954<ref name=KP>{{cite web|title=Михаил Петрович Русаков|url=http://www.g-to-g.com/?version=rus&module=8&id=390|work=Книга Памяти}}</ref>

Mineral [[Rusakovite]], water ferrovanadate Fe5 [VO4] 2 (OH) 9 • 3H2O<ref name="GSE"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Rusakovite|url=http://www.mindat.org/min-3477.html|work=Mindat.org}}</ref> is named after Mikhail Rusakov.

There is a monument to Rusakov in the city of [[Balkhash (city)|Balkhash]] erected in 1992 to commemorate the [[centenary]] of the scientist<ref name=KP/> and a school and a street of the city is named after him.<ref name=KP/>

== References ==
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[[Category:1892 births]]
[[Category:1963 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Yukhnovsky District]]
[[Category:People from Smolensk Governorate]]
[[Category:Soviet geologists]]
[[Category:Russian geologists]]
[[Category:Kazakhstani scientists]]
[[Category:Gulag detainees]]
[[Category:National Mineral Resources University alumni]]

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