Dmitriy Pavlovich Naidin, professor at the Moscow State University, Russia, passed away on February 25th, 90 years old. He was internationally well known as a leader of Soviet and Russian geologists in the fields of the Upper Cretaceous stratigraphy, cephalopods faunas (especially belemnites), palaeobiogeography, bioevents: both the Cenomanian-Turonian and K-T boundary intervals.
Naidin explored Cretaceous sections in Western Ukraine, Crimea (Ukraine), Mangyshlak (Kazakhstan), South Urals, North Siberia (Taimyr), but important results he especially got in the European Russia. He was the first researcher, in the Soviet Union, who used stable isotope studies for Mesozoic paleoenvironmental reconstructions in late 1959 and 1960 years.
During his long scientific life, D.P. Naidin published 13 monographs and more than 300 papers, many of them in English.
This is a provisional text sent by Dr. Ludmila Kopaevich. An extended obituary will be provided soon
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