TY - JOUR AU - Brenčič, Mihael PY - 2018/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Correspondence between Vasily Vasilyevich Nikitin and Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky JF - Geologija JA - geologija VL - 61 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.5474/geologija.2018.016 UR - https://www.geologija-revija.si/index.php/geologija/article/view/780 SP - 229 - 238 AB - The article presents the correspondence of mineralogist, petrologist and mineral resource expert mining engineer Vasily Vasilyevich Nikitin (1867-1942) with the famous Russian geologist, mineralogist, geochemist and philosopher Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863-1945). In the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the corpus of Vernadsky’s archival material, six letters of Nikitin to Vernadsky have been preserved. In the paper they are translated, documented and critically interpreted. In the archive, two other letters are also attributed to Nikitin, but we have proved that they are not his. The correspondence proves that after joining University of Ljubljana, Nikitin maintained contact with his former working environment in Russia, and at the same time it is a proof that the first professors who taught at the University of Ljubljana have sought contact with the development of science around the world. ER -