In 2011, in Yekaterinburg, the publishing house of the Ural Branch of the RAS published a monograph by V.A. Popova “Practical genetic mineralogy” (Yekaterinburg: Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2011. 167 pp.), Which largely fills the existing gap in the scientific and educational literature related to the generalization of the experience gained in the genetic interpretation of the textural and structural features of mineral aggregates.

N.I. Кrasnova, Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, nataly_krasnova@rambler.ru