TO THE MEMORY OF OUTSTANDING RESEARCHER OF THE CENTRAL ASIA – PROFESSOR OLEG KONSTANTINOVICH CHEDIYA (90 YEARS FROM THE DATE OF HIS BIRTH)

Abstract

It is turned 90 years from the date of O.K. Chediya birth recently – honored worker of science of the Kyrgyzstan, Doctor of geological-and-mineralogical sciences. During 50 years he worked in the Central Asian mountain regions: the Pamir and the Tien Shan. From 1950-th the main line of his research lied in Neotectonics with rest on Geomorphology, Stratigraphy and Quaternary Geology. Actually at that moment newest tectonics was in development, there were no prepared methods and guided. Researchers faced with difficult tasks, all the more in mountain regions. It could be said quite literary that Chediya was instrumental in the Pamir and the Tien Shan neotectonics development, as well as S.S. Schuitz. Main Chediya’s scientific achievements are: development of special methods in newest tectonic movements’ quantity characteristics research, detachment of seismogenic zones and its seismic hazard evaluation, and also important seismotectonic and seismic zoning mapping. Chadiya attended to academic staff training: 17 masters and 19 doctoral papers were defended under his control. Also Chediya’s intelligence, high level of culture and moral are should be noted.