Collection of Hans G. Kugler from Russian oil districts (1937)

 

Collection International geological congress in Moscow and Leningrad, Russia, in 1937

 

Standort

 

This is a collection, that H.G. Kugler assembled during the petroleum excursion after the 17th international geological congress in Moscow, 21 to 29 July, 1937. The route was from Moscow-western slope of Ural Mountains-the area of the Samara Bend (SmarskayaLuka)-the Azerbaijan Sovier Republic (Azerbaijan), ancient Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Daghestan-North Caucasus; along the Georgian Military Road to Transcaucasica (Tbilisi and its environments); the Maikop district-Taman Peninsula-Moscow.

 

The /small) collection is a stratigraphic suite of major lithologies, some macro- and microfossils (for example with fusulinids and Fenestella bryozoan limestones) from the Russian Carboniferous through Quaternary discussed and illustrated in the report of Kugler, H.G. (1939). The collection contains also washed foraminiferal residues in glass vials and fema cells from selected samples collected during this trip.

 

A copy of the paper is included with the collection, together with the conference programme and a few contemporary documents.

 

Note:

For additional information on Russian/Crimean geology and micropaleontology there is a copy of the XII European Micropaleontological Colloquium Guide Book to the USSR in 1971 in the museum (Weisser Bär, room with the micropaleontological hand-library, small shelf to the left).