Mineralogical Museum named after Yevhen Lazarenko
The Yevhen Lazarenko Museum is one of the oldest museums in Lviv, founded in 1852 by Hyacinthe Lobazhevsky, a professor of natural history. Here you can see large crystals of topaz, quartz, and beryl from Volyn, as well as minerals from the Urals and Central Asia. The museum's collection includes more than 14 thousand mineral samples. The museum is decorated with unique exhibits of mineral samples, including a giant crystal (160 kilograms) of apatite from the Transbaikal rocks. The museum's scientific highlight is the thematic showcase "Meteorites and Tektites of the World" opened in 1999. The museum has new minerals discovered in recent decades - lazarenkoite, serebrodolskite, fersmanite, gagarinite, as well as rare minerals discovered in Ukraine - syngenite, donbasite, karpatite, gautite and others.
Yevhen Lazarenko is a Ukrainian geologist and mineralogist. Honorary member of the Bulgarian Geological Society. He was born on December 26, 1912 in Kharkiv in the family of a worker. He received his higher education at Kharkiv University, graduating in 1934. He studied the mineralogical composition of lead-zinc deposits of the Nagolny Ridge in Donbas. In 1937, he successfully defended his PhD thesis. He was the first to find an organic mineral consisting entirely of coronene. In 1977, he substantiated the creation of the Podilsky Transnistrian National Park-Reserve. He died on January 1, 1979. He was buried in Kyiv at the Baikove Cemetery. A street in Lviv is named after him.
10:00-16:00, Saturday, Sunday - days off. Admission is free.
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