In Memoriam: Evgeny G. Sidorov, 1955-2021
Noted Russian platinum expert and longtime friend to Alaska Evgeny G. (Eugene) Sidorov passed away March 20, 2021 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky after a long battle with heart disease, complicated by pneumonia. He was 65. Sidorov was born April 26, 1955, in the Village of Kichui, Tartarstan Republic, Soviet Union, about 700 miles east of Moscow. In 1978, he graduated from Tomsk State University with a degree of Master in Geological Mapping and Prospecting for Mineral Deposits. In 1978, Sidorov began his professional career in the Central Geochemical Expedition of Kamchatka. From 1980 to his death, he dedicated his career toward the understanding of the metallogensis of platinum group metals associated with mafic-ultramafic rocks. In 1988, he defended his Masters thesis completed at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics at Novosibirsk: Alpine Ultramafics of the Eastern Kamchatka Region— Geology, Petrology and Mineralogy. In 2009, he defended his Doctoral dissertation at the Far East Geological Institute in Vladivostok: Platinum in Mafic- Ultramafic Complexes of the Koryak-Kamchatka Region, Russian Federation.
In the late 1980s, Eugene became a member of a special research group within the Soviet Academy of Sciences that systematically explored numerous platinum-bearing prospects throughout the Kamchatka Peninsula area. The direct result of this work was the discovery of the Koryak- Kamchatka mineral belt;
including the Galmoenan platinum district, which has yielded about 55 tonnes (1.77 million ounces) placer platinum from 1992 to the present. Eugene Sidorov was introduced to the Alaskan mining and geological community in 1989, when he and fellow Kamchatka earth scientist Farid Kutyev hosted economic geologists from the U.S. Geological Survey and Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Survey (DGGS) in northern Kamchatka, which included
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