Saima Karimova

Saima Safievna Karimova (Russian: Саима Сафиевна Каримова; 31 October 1926 – 1 January 2013) was a Soviet and Russian geologist. She was a senior geologist at the South Yakutsk complex expedition as a senior geologist of coal exploration and thematic parties from 1955 to 1968 and led its geological department. Karimova was the chief geologist of the South Yakut Complex Expedition from 1968 to her retirement in 1988 and was a significant contributor to the geological study of South Sakha. She opened the Elga coal mine in 1981, evaluated alluvial deposits of gold, uranium, molybdenum, granite, marble, building materials, facing raw materials in Yakutia and helped to develop coal deposits, iron ore deposits and phlogopite deposits. Karimova was the recipient of various state awards such as the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.