Corresponding Member of RA S, doctor of geol.-min. sciences

Institute of Mineralogy, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Miass, Russia

The main directions of his scientific research are: the study of mineralogy of ore facies of pyrite deposits, the creation of mineralogical and geochemical theory of lithogenesis of sulfide, iron-oxide and manganese metalliferous deposits of the pyrite-bearing hydrothermal fields of modern and ancient oceans.

Main publications for 2014–2018

• Ayupova N.R., Melekestseva I.Y., Maslennikov V.V., Tseluyko A.S., Blinov I.A., Beltenev V.E. URANIUM ACCUMULATION IN MODERN AND ANCIENT FE-OXIDE SEDIMENTS: EXAMPLES FROM THE ASHADZE-2 HYDROTHERMAL SULFIDE FIELD (MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE) AND THE YUBILEYNOE MSSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT (SOUTH URALS, RUSSIA) // Sedimentary geology. 2018. V. 367. P. 164–174.
• Safina N.P., Ayupova N.R., Belogub E.V., Maslennikov V.V., Blinov I.A., Zhukov I.G., Artemyev D.A. THE FIRST FIND OF GA-BEARING MINERALS IN ORES OF PYTITE DEPOSITS OF THE URALS // Doklady Academy of Sciences. 2018. V. 480. No. 4. P. 461–465.
• Safina N.P., Ayupova N.R., Belogub E.V., Maslennikov V.V., Blinov I.A., Zhukov I.G., Artemev D.A. THE FIRST FIND OF GA-BEARING MINERALS IN ORES OF THE URAL MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS // Doklady Earth Sciences. 2018. T. 480. No. 2. P. 746–749.
• Tseluiko A.S., Maslennikov V.V., Artemyev D.A. MICROTOCHEMISTRY OF PYRITE CONCRETIONS IN SILICEOUS ALEUROPELITES OF THE JUBILEE COPPER-PYRITE DEPOSIT (SOUTH URAL) ACCORDING TO LA-ICP-MS DATA // Lithosphere. 2018. V. 18. No. 4. P. 621–641.
• Maslennikov V.V. VOLCANISM AND ORE FORMATION – GENETIC PROBLEMS // Metallurgy of ancient and modern oceans. 2018. № 24. P. 13–18.
• Simonov V.A., Maslennikov V.V. GEODYNAMICS OF MAGMATIC SYSTEMS AT VALENTORSKY COPPER-ZINC-PYRITE DEPOSIT (NORTHERN URALS) // Metallogeny of ancient and modern oceans. 2018. № 24. P. 21–25.
• Ayupova N.R., Melekestseva I.Yu., Maslennikov V.V., Tseluiko A.S., Blinov I.A. URANIUM ACCUMULATION IN THE SUBMARINE HYPERGENESIS ZONE OF MODERN AND ANCIENT SULFIDE ORES // Metallogeny of ancient and modern oceans. 2018. № 24. P. 82–85.
• Safina N.P., Ayupova N.R., Maslennikov V.V., Tseluyko A.S. TEXTURE-STRUCTURAL AND MINERAL PECULIARITIES OF ORE FACIES OF THE NOVO-SHEMURSKY COPPER-PYRITE DEPOSIT, NORTHERN URALS // Metallogeny of ancient and modern oceans. 2018. № 24. P. 97–100.
• Melekestseva I.Yu., Maslennikov V.V., Safina N.P., Artemyev D.A. IPOCHEMISM AND MICROTOPECHEMISTRY OF PYRROTIN-PYRITE CONCRETION OF THE DERGAMISH COBALT-COPPER-PYRITE DEPOSIT, SOUTHERN URALS // Mineralogy. 2018. V. 4. No. 3. P. 93–107.
• Melekestseva I., Maslennikov V.V., Safina N.P., Maslennikova S., Artemyev D., Kotlyarov V., Nimis P., Toffolo L., Beltenev V., Rozhdestvenskaya I., Large R., Danyushevsky L. SULFIDE BRECCIAS FROM THE SEMYONOV-3 HYDROTHERMAL FIELD, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE: AUTHIGENIC MINERAL FORMATION AND TRACE ELEMENT PATTERN // Minerals. 2018. V. 8. № 8. P. 321.
• Ayupova N.R., Maslennikov V.V., Sadykov S.A., Safina N.P., Tessalina S.G., Shilovsky O.P., Statsenko E.O., Hollis S.P., Danyushevsky L.V. TUBE FOSSILS FROM GOSSANITES OF THE URALS VHMS DEPOSITS, RUSSIA: AUTHIGENIC MINERAL ASSEMBLAGES AND TRACE ELEMENT DISTRIBUTIONS // Ore Geology Reviews. 2017. V. 85. P. 107–130.
• Herrington R.J., Plotinskaya O.Y., Maslennikov V.V., Tessalina S.G. AN OVERVIEW OF MINERAL DEPOSITS IN THE URALS: A SPECIAL ISSUE OF ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS // Ore Geology Reviews. 2017. V. 85. P. 1–3.
• Hawkins T., Smith M.P., Herrington R.J., Maslennikov V.V., Boyce A.J., Jeffries T., Creaser R.A. THE GEOLOGY AND GENESIS OF THE IRON SKARNS OF THE TURGAI BELT, NORTHWESTERN KAZAKHSTAN // Ore Geology Reviews. 2017. V. 85. P. 216–246.
• Maslennikov V.V., Maslennikova S.P., Ayupova N.R., Zaykov V.V., Tseluyko A.S., Melekestseva I.Y., Large R.R., Danyushevsky L.V., Herrington R.J., Lein A.Y., Tessalina S.G. CHIMNEYS IN PALEOZOIC MASSIVE SULFIDE MOUNDS OF THE URALS VMS DEPOSITS: MINERAL AND TRACE ELEMENT COMPARISON WITH MODERN BLACK, GREY, WHITE AND CLEAR SMOKERS // Ore Geology Reviews. 2017. Т. 85. С. 64–106.
• Maslennikov V.V., Ayupova N.R., Maslennikova S.P., Lein A.Y., Tseluiko A.S., Danyushevsky L.V., Large R.R., Simonov V.A. ERRATUM TO: CRITERIA FOR THE DETECTION OF HYDROTHERMAL ECOSYSTEM FAUNAS IN ORES OF MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS IN THE URALS (LITHOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES (2017), 52, 3, (173–191), 10.1134/S002449021703004X) // Lithology and Mineral Resources. 2017. Т. 52. № 4. С. 334.
• Melekestseva I.Y., Maslennikov V.V., Maslennikova S.P., Danyushevsky L.V., Large R. COVELLITE OF THE SEMENOV-2 HYDROTHERMAL FIELD (13°31.13′ N, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE): ENRICHMENT IN TRACE ELEMENTS ACCORDING TO LA- ICP- MS-ANALYSIS // Doklady Academy of Sciences. 2017. V. 473. № 1. P. 71–75.
• Melekestseva I.Y., Maslennikov V.V., Maslennikova S.P., Danyushevsky L.V., Large R. COVELLITE OF THE SEMENOV-2 HYDROTHERMAL FIELD (13°31.13′ N, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE): ENRICHMENT IN TRACE ELEMENTS ACCORDING TO LA- ICP- MS- ANALYSIS // Doklady Earth Sciences. 2017. V. 473. № 1. P. 291–295.
• Ayupova N.R, Maslennikov V.V., Kotlyarov V.A., Maslennikova S.P., Danyushevsky L.V., Lard R. MINERALS OF SELENIUM AND INDIUM IN THE ZONE OF SUBMARINE HYPERGENESIS OF THE MASSIVE SULFIDE OREBODY OF THE MOLODEZHNOE COPPER- ZINC MASSIVE –SULFIDE DEPOSIT, SOUTHERN URALS // Ural // Doklady Academy of Sciences. 2017. V. 473. No. 2. P. 190–194.
• Ayupova N.R., Maslennikov V.V., Kotlyarov V.A., Maslennikova S.P., Danyushevsky L.V., Large R. SE AND IN MINERALS IN THE SUBMARINE PXIDATION ZONE OF A MASSIVE SULFIDE OREBODYOF THE MOLODEZHNOE COPPER- ZINC MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT, SOUTHERN URALS // Doklady Earth Sciences. 2017. V. 473. № 1. № 318–322.
• Tseluiko A.S., Maslennikov V.V., Ayupova N.R., Maslennikova S.P. MINERAL AND TEXTURE- STRUCTURAL PECULIARITIES OF THE ORE FACIES OF THE JUBILEE COPPER-MASSIVE-SULFIDE DEPOSIT (SOUTHERN URALS) // Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii. Geology and exploration. 2017. No. 4. P. 50–56.
• Maslennikov V.V., Ayupova N.R., Maslennikova S.P., Lein A.Yu., Tseluyko A.S., Daniushevsky L.V., Large R.R., Simonov V.A. CRITERIA FOR THE DETECTION OF THE FAUNA HYDROTHERMAL ECOSYSTEMS IN ORES OF MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS OF THE URALS // Lithology and mineral resources. 2017. No. 3. P. 199–218.
• Maslennikov V.V., Ayupova N.R., Maslennikova S.P., Lein A.Y., Tseluiko A.S., Danyushevsky L.V., Large R.R., Simonov V.A. CRITERIA FOR THE DETECTION OF HYDROTHERMAL ECOSYSTEM FAUNAS IN ORES OF MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS IN THE URALS // Lithology and Mineral Resources. 2017. V. 52. No. 3. P. 173–191.
• Large R.R., Mukherjee I., Gregory D.D., Steadman J.A., Meffre S., Maslennikov V.V. OCEAN AND ATMOSPHERE GEOCHEMICAL PROXIES DERIVED FROM TRACE ELEMENTS IN MARINE PYRITE: IMPLICATIONS FOR ORE GENESIS IN SEDIMENTARY BASINS // Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists. 2017. V. 112. № 2. P. 423–450.
• Melekestseva I.Yu., Maslennikov V.V., Tret'yakov G.A., Maslennikova S.P., Belogub E.V., Sadykov S.A., Yuminov A.M., Nimis P., Beltenev V.E., Rozhdestvenskaya I.I., Danyushevsky L., Large R. GOLD- AND SILVER-RICH MASSIVE SULFIDES FROM THE SEMENOV-2 HYDROTHERMAL FIELD, 13°31.13' N., MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE: A CASE OF MAGMATIC CONTRIBUTION? // Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists. 2017. V. 112. № 4. P. 741–773.
• Maslennikov V.V., Maslennikova S.P., Ayupova N.R., Tseluiko A.S., Simonov V.A. BLACK SMOKERS OF VOLCANOGENIC BLACK-SLATY ASSOCIATIONS // Metallogeny of ancient and modern oceans. 2017. No. 23. P. 10–19.
• Artemyev D.A., Maslennikov V.V., Filippova K.A. MASS SPECTROMETRY WITH INDUCTIVE CONNECTED PLASMA AND LASER ABLATION IN MINERAL- GEOCHEMICAL RESEARCHES OF THE INSTITUTE OF MINERALOGY, UB RAS // Metallogeny of ancient and modern oceans. 2017. No. 23. P. 201–206.
• Shilovsky O.P., Maslennikov V.V. PYRITE PSEUDOMORPHOSES ON ORGANIC REMAINS FROM THE MIDDLE-YURASSIC DEPOSITS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TATARSTAN // Metallogeny of ancient and modern oceans. 2017. No. 23. P. 245–249.
• Maslennikov V.V., Ayupova N.R., Maslennikova S.P., Melekestseva I.Yu., Tseluiko A.S., Arkhireyeva N.S. SULPHIDE CONCRETIONS OF MASSIVE-SULFIDE DEPOSITS: CONDITIONS OF LOCATION, TYPOCHEMISM AND FACTORS OF FORMATION // Metallogeny of ancient and modern oceans. 2017. No. 23. P. 43–47.
• Melekestseva I.Yu., Maslennikov V.V., Belogub EV.V., Maslennikova S.P., Danyushevsky L. ELEMENT-IMPURITIES IN SULFIDES OF HYDROTHERMAL FIELD SEMENOV-2 (13 ° 31.13´ N.L., MIDDLE-ATLANTIC RIDGE): ISOMORPHISM OR MICROINCLUSIONS? // Metallogeny of ancient and modern oceans. 2017. No. 23. P. 85–89.
• Maslennikov V.V., Ayupova N.R., Artemyev D.A., Tseluiko A.S. MICROTOPOCHEMISTRY OF MARKASIT-PYRITE CONCRETION IN ILLIT-HEMATITE GOSSANITES OF COPPER-ZINC-MASSIF-SULFIDE DEPOSIT LAKHANOS (PONTIDA, TURKEY) According to the data of the LA-ICP-MS // Mineralogy. 2017. No. 3 (3). P. 48–70.
• Tretyakov G.A., Maslennikov V.V. COMPARISON OF MINERAL ASSOCIATIONS IN BLACK SMOKERS OF DIFFERENT TYPES ACCORDING TO PARAGENETIC ANALYSIS AND PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL MODELING // Mineralogy. 2017. V. 3. No. 1. P. 71–81.
• Safina N.P., Maslennikov V.V., Artemyev D.A., Arkhireeva N.S. MICROTOPOCHEMISTRY AND TYPOCHEMISM OF PYRITE CONCRETION FROM CARBONACEOUS ALEUROLITES OF THE SAFYANOV MASSIF-SULFIDE DEPOSIT (MIDDLE URALS) // Mineralogy. 2017. V. 3. No 4. P. 22–36.