Karim Adilkhanov

Karim Khasanovich Adilkhanov (spelled Adilxanov in some documents) is a geologist and mineralogist, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences and a professor. He was born in Tashkent in 1944.

He studied at the exploration geology faculty of the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute and in 1966 received an engineer’s diploma in the geology and exploration of mineral deposits. After graduating he stayed at the Department of Crystallography and Mineralogy, where he rose from assistant and senior lecturer to associate professor and professor.

He has taught crystallography, mineralogy and genetic mineralogy to bachelor’s and master’s students and given practical classes. He supervises the geological field training at the Burchmulla site in the Bostanlyk district of the Tashkent Region. He has published teaching guidelines and a textbook on mineralogy.

From May 1976 he headed the department’s thematic expedition. In 1989 he defended a candidate’s dissertation on the material and mineralogical composition of gold-ore occurrences in Southern Uzbekistan. According to the available information he is the author of eight production reports and some fifteen scientific articles, and he took a refresher course at the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas in Moscow.

At the faculty he served as deputy dean, chairman of the trade-union committee and chairman of the methodological council. The institute later became Tashkent State Technical University (now named after Islam Karimov); documents from 2022 list Adilkhanov as a professor of its Department of Geology, Mineralogy and Petrography.