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Mavlonov Gani Orifkhanovich (1910.15.1 - Tashkent - December 1988.12.3, 1960) - geologist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan (1970), Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Uzbekistan (1955). Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1957), Professor (XNUMX).
Participant of the Second World War. Graduated from the Central Asian Industrial Institute (1935). In 1940-41 he was the dean of the institute, associate professor. Researcher at the Institute of Geology of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan (1946-49), head of the laboratory (1949-55) and director (1956-60). Director of the Institute of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology (1960-66). From 1966 he worked as the director of the Institute of Seismology of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan.
His scientific works are devoted to the genetic types of lyos and lyossimon rocks, engineering geological features, physical and mechanical properties. Gani Mavlonov divided the Quaternary deposits in Central Asia into four periods according to their age and mapped their distribution areas (1949). After the Tashkent earthquake, he was engaged in seismological research. In particular, he supervised the development of a new version of the map of seismic micro-zoning of Tashkent and its suburbs, the 1978 version of the map "Seismic zoning of Uzbekistan." Author of a scientific discovery about changes in groundwater and gas composition during earthquakes.
Laureate of the Beruni State Prize of Uzbekistan (1981). The Institute of Seismology is named after Gani Mavlonov in Tashkent, which has a museum dedicated to Gani Mavlonov (1990).