title: Yekaterina Ankinovich
text: # Yekaterina Ankinovich
  
  Yekaterina Alexandrovna Ankinovich (1911-1991) was a Soviet geologist and mineralogist, Doctor of Sciences and professor. She discovered a record number of minerals - 12. She won the Lenin Prize and the Stalin Prize.
  
  ## Biography
  
  ### Early life
  
  Ankinovich was born in Little Yalchik (now Chuvashia).
  
  ### Education
  
  In 1937, she graduated from Leningrad Mining Institute (now Saint Petersburg Mining University). In 1964, she earned a Doctor of Sciences in Geology and Mineralogy.
  
  ### Career
  
  She worked in the geological service of Kazakhstan including in Alma-Ata and Karatau.
  
  Ankinovich became a professor in 1967. She later became head of the department of "crystallography, mineralogy and petrography."
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Stalin Prize Third Degree (USSR State Prize) 1948 for "geological research and development of the Nikolaevsky polymetal deposit"
  * Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
  * Honored Scientist of the Kazakhstani SSR (1974)
  * USSR Deposit Discoverer Medal
  * Lenin Prize
  
  ## Honors
  
  She has a mineral named after her - Ankinovichit.
  
  ## Family life
  
  Her husband Stepan Gerasimovich Ankinovich was also a Soviet geologist.
  
  