Faculty of Geology

Address: 3 Lenin St., Irkutsk
Contacts: tel. +7 (3952) 243-280, 200-931,
fax: 8(3952) 24-32-78
Website: www.geo.isu.ru
E-mail: dean@geo.isu.ru

The Faculty of Geology was one of the founding faculties of the Irkutsk State University.

The first graduation took place in 1920. In 1951, the faculty opened two new areas of concentration “Geological Survey, Seeking and Exploration of Minerals” and “Geology and Exploration of Oil and Gas Fields”.

Since 1994, the faculty has been educating students in the fields of “Geology” and “Geology and Exploration”. New specialties were opened in “Geology”, “Geology and Geochemistry of Fossil Fuels”, and “Geochemistry”. In 2000, the faculty started awarding the degree of Master of Geology.

Since its inception, the faculty has graduated 4685 students.

Currently, they work in geological organizations, universities and at the Research Institutes in Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia, Yakutia, Buryatiya and the Russian Far East.

Departments:

• Teaching and Research Geological Museum;
• Geochemistry;
• Minerals;
• Mineralogy and Petrology;
• Dynamic Geology;
• Geology, Oil and Gas;
• Geology and Geophysics.

COURSES OF STUDY

BACHELOR DEGREE PROGRAM

Full-time study
Period of study - 4 years

SPECIALIST DIPLOMA

Full-time study
Period of study – 5 years

MASTER DEGREE PROGRAM

Full-time study
Period of study – 2 years

RESEARCH

• Change of microcomponent composition of Lake Telman sediment
• Neoproterozoic dike swarms in the south of the Siberian craton
• Scientific expedition to Patomsky volcano
• The problem of formation and migration of hydrocarbons in sedimentary basins of the Baikal Rift System
• Basit-ultrabasit magmatism in the geological evolution of the Earth
• Vitims and Dariganga Cenozoic volcanic fields: a comparative study of geology and abyssal petrogenesis
• Analytical review of materials on Cenozoic magmatism and modern geodynamic activity of the mantle and crust of Central Asia
• Radioactive elements in the environment of the Baikal region