bibliography: Reshetnyk, M. M. The scientific heritage of Volodymyr Luchytskyi and Mykola Bezborodko in the geological collection of the National Museum of Natural History. Proceedings of the National Museum of Natural History. Vol. 15: 127–132.

doi: http://doi.org/10.15407/vnm.2017.15.127

author(s): M. M. Reshetnyk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2439-4134

affiliation: National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

address: M. M. Reshetnyk; National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine; Ukraine, Kyiv, 01030, Bohdan Khmelnytsky St. 15; e-mail: reshetnyk@bigmir.net.

Summary:
The article presents the results of a scientific and historical research on the collections of Precambrian rocks. The collection was created by two outstanding petrographers, founders of petrography in Ukraine, who studied crystalline rocks that are spread across the entire Ukrainian shield. Collections of Volodymyr Lutchytsky and Mykolai Bezborodko in the Geological Museum of NMNH, NAS of Ukraine are a reflection of their outstanding theoretical and pracatical work in geology.. We present here our classification of all templates of their collections by regional and petrographical characteristics. The most representative geographies have the templates in the collection of Bezborodko, while the collection of Lutischysky is concentrated on granites-rapakivi from the Zhytomyr region. The books and maps of the scientists who first described the Ukrainian shield are of great importance in understanding of the origin the Precambrian basement. Their conceptions are basic in modern geological understanding of the structure and composition of the Ukrainian Schield. These collections are part of the geochronological exhibition as an important part of geological national heritage preserved in the National Museum of Natural History.

Keywords:
petrology, structural geology, collection of rock samples, Ukrainian shield, granitoids.

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