LITHOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL FEATURES OF THE DEPOSITS OF THE SALIKHOVSKAYA SUITE IN THE SECTION OF THE NEW KRASNOUSOLSKAYA WELL IN THE CIS-URAL FOREDEEP AND THE KUKKARAUKSKAYA SUITE OF THE SOUTHERN URALS

The article provides a description of the material composition of the rocks of the Salikhovskaya formation, exposed by the new well Krasnousolsk in the Preuralian foredeep. Based on lithological and mineralogical features, a comparison is made of the deposits of the Salikhovskaya formation in the east of the Russian plate with similar formations of the Kukkarauk formation of the Urals.

Eminent Phanerozoic Biosystematist: in Memory of Paleontologist and Geoecologist Professor Maxim G. Minikh (1942–2019)

This paper presents a brief biography of the Professor Maxim G. Minich, a Soviet and Russian specialist in fossil fish and stratigraphy of the Permian and Triassic of the Russian Plate and the Cis-Uralian peripheral depression. He was a brilliant representative of the middle generation of the Saratov school of vertebrate researchers, the head of the Department of Biostratigraphy and Paleontology at the Scientific Research Geological Institute of Saratov State University and latterly its Director. He was an honorary member of the All-Russian Paleontological Society. A bibliography of Professor Minikh’s principal publications is given comprising 107 titles.