Mikhail Petrovich Rusakov
Михаил Петрович Русаков
Born	20 November [ O.S. 8 November] 1892 Yukhnov, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	October 24, 1963(1963-10-24) (aged 70) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place	Novodevichy Cemetery
Citizenship	Russian Empire   Soviet Union

Mikhail Petrovich Rusakov ( Russian: Михаил Петрович Русаков, 20 November [ O.S. 8 November] 1892 in Yukhnov – 24 October 1963 in Moscow) was a Soviet geologist, academician of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. ^{[1] [2]}

He graduated from high school with a gold medal. ^[3] In 1911, ^{[4] [5]} he entered the Geological Department of the Petrograd Mining Institute, from which he graduated in 1921. ^[1]

He worked in the Ural-Siberian Division of the Geological Committee, and then in the geological department of the Kazakh branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. ^[1]

His main works are devoted to the study of geology and ore deposits of Kazakhstan. ^{[1] [2]}

Rusakov discovered the following mining fields: Kounrad (copper), Semizbugskoe (corundum, andalusite) Karagaylinskoye (lead, barite), Kairaktinsky (asbestos, barite, base metals) and other mineral deposits. ^{[1] [2]}

On 30 May 1949 Rusakov was arrested by the NKVD as a part of falsified "Krasnoyarsk Case". By an extrajudicial decision of the Special Council of the NKVD he was sentenced to 25 years of labor camps. He worked in a sharashka OTB-1 in Krasnoyarsk. He was freed and rehabilitated on 20 March 1954 ^[6]

Mineral Rusakovite, water ferrovanadate Fe5 [VO4] 2 (OH) 9 • 3H2O ^{[1] [7]} is named after Mikhail Rusakov.

There is a monument to Rusakov in the city of Balkhash erected in 1992 to commemorate the centenary of the scientist ^[6] and a school and a street of the city is named after him. ^[6]