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11-597: The Skalisty Range, meaning "rocky" owing to numerous pointed crags of naked rock crowning the range, was relatively unknown until 1934. It was first surveyed by an expedition sent by the government of the Soviet Union led by geologist Yuri Bilibin (1901—1952) together with mining engineer Evgeny Bobin (1897—1941). Though located near the southern end of the Verkhoyansk Range , this remote mountain area had formerly not been considered part of it by geographers, along with

22-766: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Yuri Alexandrovich Bilibin Yuri Alexandrovich Bilibin ( Russian : Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Били́бин ; 19 May 1901 in Rostov – 4 May 1952 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet geologist. Between 1919-1921 he served in the Red Army . In 1926 he graduated from the Leningrad Mining Institute . He later became a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and in 1946

33-668: The Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" , as well as the Stalin Prize in the I degree, for his exploration and discovery of new gold deposits in the Far East of the USSR . USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize (Russian: Государственная премия СССР , romanized:  Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR ) was the Soviet Union 's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After

44-701: The authoritative Fundamentals of placer geology (Основы геологии россыпей, 1938). He died in Leningrad in 1952 from an intracerebral hemorrhage and was buried at the Volkovo Cemetery in the Literary Bridges section. Bilibino town and Bilibino District in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug , as well as the mineral Bilibinskite , were named in his honor. He also was awarded the Medal "For Valiant Labour in

55-621: The dissolution of the Soviet Union, the prize was followed up by the State Prize of the Russian Federation . The State Stalin Prize ( Государственная Сталинская премия , Gosudarstvennaya Stalinskaya premiya ), usually called the Stalin Prize , existed from 1941 to 1956. It essentially played the same role; therefore upon the establishment of the USSR State Prize, the diplomas and badges of

66-913: The east of the Sette-Daban and Ulakhan-Bom and parallel to them. It is bound in the northwest by the Tompo River , which separates it from the Verkhoyansk Range proper. To the south the Allakh-Yun River valley separates it from the Yudoma-Maya Highlands . Both the Tompo and the Allakh Yun are tributaries of the Aldan River . To the northeast and east it connects with the Suntar-Khayata Range . In

77-474: The fields of science, mathematics, literature, arts, and architecture to honor the most prominent achievements which either advanced the Soviet Union or the cause of socialism. Often the prize was awarded to specific works rather than to individuals. Each constituent Soviet republic (SSR) or (SFSR) and autonomous republic (ASSR) also had a State Prize (or Stalin Prize). The Stalin Prize was an honor different from

88-574: The other ranges south and southeast of the course of the Aldan River and the Tompo . After conducting the first topographic survey of the area, Bilibin established that this range belongs to the Verkhoyansk Mountain System. Bilibin and Bobin also explored for the first time this range, along with the adjacent Sette-Daban and Yudoma-Maya Highlands . The Skalisty Range stretches roughly from north to south for about 150 kilometres (93 mi) to

99-619: The recipients of Stalin Prize were changed to that of USSR State Prize. In 1944 and 1945, the last two years of the Second World War , the award ceremonies for the Stalin Prize were not held. Instead, in 1946 the ceremony was held twice: in January for the works created in 1943–1944 and in June for the works of 1945. USSR State Prize of 1st, 2nd and 3rd degrees was awarded annually to individuals in

110-640: The southern part the Eastern Khandyga and the Tyry , also tributaries of the Aldan, cut across the range dividing into separate sections. The highest point of the mountain chain is an unnamed peak reaching 2,017 metres (6,617 ft) or 2,079 metres (6,821 ft) according to other sources, The slopes of the range are covered by deciduous forests, giving way to mountain tundra at elevations above 1,300 metres (4,300 ft). This Sakha Republic location article

121-538: Was awarded the Stalin Prize for his contribution in the discovery of gold deposits in northeast Siberia . Together with mining engineer Evgeny Bobin (1897—1941), Bilibin surveyed and charted the last unmapped areas of continental USSR , the Sette-Daban and the Yudoma-Maya and Aldan highlands, in the course of an expedition sent by the Soviet government in 1934. Bilibin wrote more than 60 scientific papers, including

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