From professor D. P. Grigoriev’s archive: memories of A. K. Boldyrev, B. A. Zilbermints, L. L. Ivanov, V. I. Kryzhanovsky, P. P. Sushchinsky and N. M. Fedorovsky

The article publishes for the first time the memoirs of the Soviet mineralogist Prof. A. Ya. Mickey about the great Russian mineralogists and geologists A. K. Boldyrev, V. A. Zilbermints, L. L. Ivanov, V. I. Kryzhanovsky, P. P. Suschinsky and N. M. Fedorovsky, found by the author in the archive of Prof. D. P. Grigoriev, preserved at the Russian Mineralogical Society. All documents are transcribed, attributed and commented by the author. The relevance of the article lies in the necessity of defending priorities of the Russian science and technology. The purpose of the paper is to give a fullest coverage of professional and creative activities of the mentioned scientists as important episodes of the history of Russian mineralogy. The names of D. N. Artemyev, N. I. Bezborodko, V. I. Vernadsky, F. E. Dzerzhinsky, V. V. Dubyansky, A. V. Lavrsky, P. I. Lebedev, F. Yu. Levinson-Lessing, Ya. V. Samoylov, I. I. Tanatar, A. A. Tvalchrelidze, A. E. Fersman, E. S. Fedorov, P. N. Chirvinsky, and L. Ya. Yachevsky should appeal to a wide range of readers. The importance of personal archives in the study of the history of science is underlined. The archive of Professor D. P. Grigoriev in letters and other documents reflects a powerful layer of prewar and postwar history of Russian mineralogy. The article is dedicated to the 55th anniversary of the A. A. Chernov Museum of the N. P. Yushkin Institute of Geology.