doctor of geol.-min. sciences

Acad. A.N. Zavaritsky Institute of Geology and Geochemistry  of UB RAS, Ekaterinburg, Russia

The well-known specialist in the field of mineralogy and petrology of granitoids, geochemistry of halogens in the processes of petrogenesis and ore formation, geology of skarn-magnetite and titanomagnetite-ilmenite deposits of the Urals.
On the results of his studies it was published about 250 scientific papers, including 5 monographs.
An important result of his researches is the study of the regime of halogens and other mineralizing elements in the processes of ore formation. He is the author of original method, making possible to characterize metallogenic specialization and in some cases, the potential ore presence of granitoid complexes according to the distribution of halogens in minerals. In recent years the conditions for the formation of  unique, on ore reserves, the Middle Riphean ilmenite and titanomagnetite deposits of the Urals western slope (Kusa-Kopan group) have been highlighted in a new way. The obtained scientific results make an important contribution to the solution of a number of problems of prior direction – the geochemistry of petro- and ore genesis processes accompanying granitoid magmatism of intracontinental folded systems, as well as to understanding the physical-chemical nature of the processes leading to the formation of ore-bearing magmas, to the theory of fluid-magmatic interaction with participation of halogen-containing fluids and others.
He is the head of a joint program of the UB RAS and the SB and FEB of RAS (project 12-С-5-1022).

Books:

• Bushlyakov I.N., Kholodnov V.V. Halogens in petrogenesis and ore presence of granitoids. M.: Nauka Publ., 1986. P.191.
• Kholodnov V.V., Bushlyakov I.N. Halogens in endogenous ore formation. Ekaterinburg: UB RAS, 2002, P.394.

List of major publications over the last 3 years:

• Kholodnov V.V., Shagalov E.S. The upper and lower age lines of the Middle Riphean ore-bearing (Ti-Fe-V) intrusions of the Kusa-Kopan complex of the Southern Urals: U-Pb dating of zircons of the Medvedevsky deposit. Doklady Academy of Sciences. 2012. V.446, № 4, P. 432– 437.
• Kholodnov V.V., Shagalov E.S., Bocharnikova T.D. To the issue of establishing the upper age limit for the formation of ore-bearing intrusions of the Kusa-Kopansky complex: U-Pb dating of zircon from late granites of the Medvedevsky deposit // Lithosphere, 2012, № 3, P. 99–109.
• Kholodnov V.V., Bocharnikova T.D., Shagalov E.S. Composition, age and genesis of magnetite - ilmenite ores of the Middle Riphean stratified Medvedevsky massif (Kusa- Kopansky complex of the Southern Urals) // Lithosphere. 2012, No. 5, P. 145-165.
• Bocharnikova T.D., Kholodnov V.V., Shagalov E.S. The composition and sources of fluids from skarns of mineral mines of the Kusa-Kopansky intrusive complex (Southern Urals) // Lithosphere. 2011.  No.5. P. 124-130.
• Kholodnov V.V., Fershtater G. B., Ronkin Yu.L., Borodina N.S., Pribavkin S.V., Lepikhina O.P. Sm-Nd , Rb-Sr  age of gabbroids, granitoids and titanomagnetite ores from stratified intrusions of the Kusa-Kopansky complex (Southern Urals) //Doklady Academy of Sciences. 2010. V. 432. No. 5, P. 650-654.
• Fershtater G.B., Kholodnov V.V., Kremenetsky A.A., Krasnobaev A.A., Borodina N.S., Zin'kova E.A., Pribavkin S.V. Gold-bearing gabbro-tonalite-granodiorite-granite massifs of the Urals: age, geochemistry, peculiarities of magmatic and ore evolution // Geology of ore deposits. 2010. V. 52, No. 1. P. 65-84.
• Kholodnov V.V., Shagalov E.S. Isotope-geochemical (Sm-Nd, Rb-Sr) and metallogenic evolution of the Ural folded system. // Isotopic systems and the time of geological processes. Proceedings of the IV Russian conference on isotope geochronology. V.II.St. Petersburg: IP Katalkina, 2009. P. 235-238.
• Fershtater G.B., Krasnobaev A.A., Bea F., Montero P., Levin V.Ya., Kholodnov V.V. Isotope-geochemical features and age of zircons from dunites of the Ural massifs of platinum-bearing type, petrogenetic consequences // Petrology.  2009. V.17. № 5. P. 539-558.
• Kholodnov V.V., Shagalov E.S. The role and influence of mantle and crustal sources, fluid regime on the composition and metallogenic specialization (Au, W, Bi, Mo etc.) of the long-forming marginal-continental granitoid plutons of the Middle and Southern Urals // Geological processes under the conditions of subduction,  collision and the lithospheric plate sliding: Proceedings of the all-Russian conference with international participation, Vladivostok, September 20-23, 2011. Vladivostok: Dal'nauka Publ. 2011. P. 383-386.