Boris Valentinovich Chesnokov (1928-2005) and chesnokovit
Boris Valentinovich Chesnokov is an outstanding Ural mineralogist, doctor of geological and mineralogical Sciences, winner of the Demidov prize. He made a huge contribution to the theory of Mineralogy, ontogeny of minerals, Mineralogy of alkaline pegmatites, metamorphites, ore deposits, and recently actively developed Mineralogy of technogenic formations, he discovered 54 new mineral species.