Doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences, professor, chief researcher of the IGG UB    RAS, head of the department of Geology of USMU, Ekaterinburg.
The results of the V.N. Ogorodnikov study made a fundamental contribution to the theory of ore formation. He developed the methods for constructing geological, genetic and physical-chemical models that substantiate the conjugates formation of gold and rock crystal. Together with V.B. Boltyrov he developed the “method of searching for hidden quartz veins” and received the author's certificate No. 490062, bul. No. 40, 1975. The invention got the Bronze medal of the VDNK in 1976. When studying the metasomatic formations accompanying crystal quartz veins and comparing them with the metasomatites of gold deposits, he concluded that crystal-bearing deposits have been formed spatially and genetically conjugated with gold mineralization. In 1968-1969 the prospecting-evaluative work has been done on predicting gold mineralization at the Astafyev piezo-quartz deposit: “Predictive estimation northern part of the Dzhabyk ore knot”; the estimated gold resources of category P1, P2, R3 were calculated. These materials have formed the basis for a doctor’s dissertation “Regularities of location and conditions for the formation of quartz-vein crystal-bearing and gold deposits of the Urals” (1993).
In 2012-2013 he was the leader of fundamental research on the theme “Researches of genetic types of deposits of the kyanite group - the mineral resource base of Russia - high-alumina refractories. The results of works are presented in 15 monographs.

Main publications for 2014–2018.

Educational- methodical development:

• Electronic educational methodical complex "General geology". 2012.
• Electronic educational methodical complex "Basis of geology". 2013.
• “Minerals”. Guidelines for performing the laboratory work. 2016.
• “Magmatic  rocks”. Guidelines for performing the laboratory work. 2016.
• “Metamorphic  rocks”. Guidelines for performing the laboratory work. 2016.
• ”Sedimentary rocks”. Guidelines for performing the laboratory work. 2016.
• “Art processing of gemstone-colored raw materials” Part 2 ... USMU Publ. 2012.
• “Art processing of gemstones” Part 4 ... USMU Publ. 2012.

Monographs:

• Gold-ore, rare metal and crystal-bearing mineralization of the Urals deposits of quartz-vein type”. UB RAS - USMU, 2014.
• “The Berezovskoe gold deposit is a unique object of polychronous and polygenic ore formations”. Publ. USMU, 2015.
• “Morphogenetic types and technology of enrichment of kyanite ores” Publ. RIO UB RAS, 2013.

Scientific articles RISC: 63 articles for 2012-2015.

• Muscovites of gold and crystal-bearing deposits of the Urals and their exploration value// Geology and mineral resources of theSiberia.  № 5.  2014.
• The first find of noble spinel at the Svetlinskoye rock crystal deposit// Izvestiya of USMU № 3, 2015.
• Morphogenetic types of kyanite - a promising raw material for the production of high alumina   refractories // Geology and mineral resources of theSiberia. №  3.  2014.

Articles of Scopus, Web of Science:

Conditions of formation of the kyanite group deposits. Doklady Academyof  Sciences. 2014.

Articles in editions of HAC list: 19 articles for 2012-2016.

• Morphogenetic types of kyanite – perspective raw material for the high-aluminiferous refractory production. Geology and mineral-product resources of theSiberia. №3. 2014.
• Quartz-vein formations of metamorphogenic genesis of the Ufaley gneiss-amphibolite complex. Izvestiya of  USMU № 2, 2015.
• Rare-earth  pegmatites and carbonatites of the Ufaley metamorphic complex. Geology and mineral- product resources of the Siberia.  №1. 2016.