Alexei Ivanovich Dzens-Litovsky and his Contribution to the Study of Salt Lakes of the Urals. Part II

In the historical and scientific aspect, the article examines the biography, creative heritage and contribution to the study of the phenomenon of salt lakes and karst of the Urals of the outstanding Russian scientist, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences Alexei Ivanovich Dzens-Litovsky (1892-1981). Little-known pages of the scientist's scientific life are studied and presented, and his contribution to Uralic studies, as well as his place in the circle of outstanding Russian naturalists of that time, are shown. Its key status in the study of salt lakes of the USSR, their industrial and balneological development, in the establishment of Soviet-Chinese scientific cooperation in the study of salt lakes and the development of salt deposits is shown. Within the framework of the modern worldview, the role of A.I. Dzens-Litovsky in the comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon of the formation of salts and salt lakes in the evolution of the geographical shell, their role for industry and balneology, the solution of urgent ecological and scientific-technical problems, the formation of modern nature-like technologies is noted.