Vladimir Vasilyevich Bezsmertny (; 6 May 1912 – 2002) was a Russian geologist, mineralogist, petrographer and petrologist, candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences, specialist in the field of ore deposits, associate professor at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute.
In 1978, Vladimir Bezsmertny became one of the authors of the discovery of another new mineral, bilibinskite.Spiridonov E., Bezsmertnaya M., Chvileva T., Bezsmertny V. Bilibinskite, Au3Cu2PbTe2, a new mineral gold-telluride deposits. Intern. Geol. Rev. 1979. Vol. 21. P. 1411–1415. Four years later, this mineral became the title mineral for a new group of polymetallic tellurides called the bilibinskite group.Spiridonov E., Chvileva T., New gold minerals — plumbotellurides of gold, copper, iron, silver (bilibinskite group). — Moscow: Notes of the Russian Mineralogical Society, 1982. — p. 140–147
In 1979, in honor of Vladimir Bezsmertny and his wife Marianna Bezsmertnaya (1915-1991), a new mineral found in Kamchatka, bezsmertnovite,Bezsmertnovite (A valid IMA mineral species): information about the mineral bezsmertnovite in the Mindat database. was named in composition — a complex plumbotelluride of gold, copper, iron and silver,Bezsmertnovite: Handbook of Mineralogy the brightness of the color surpasses even gold.Chvileva T.N., Bezsmertnaya M.S., Spiridonov E.M., Agroskin A.S. etc. Guide to identifying ore minerals in reflected light. — Moscow, Nedra Publishers, 1988. — 504 p.
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