On January 19, 2021, the outstanding Russian geophysicist Abdulkhai Zhamaletdinov died of Covid-19.

He devoted more than 50 years of his life to electromagnetic studies at the East-European Platform with the focus in Fennoscandia. His scientific interests were primarily concentrated on the study of the nature and structure of the electrical conductivity of the lithosphere using powerful controlled sources of the electromagnetic field in concurrence with the MT method.

He fruitfully participated practically in all substantial Soviet, Russian and international EM experiments carried out in Fennoscandia and the wider Baltic Region.

Abdulkhai Zhamaletdinov created a new scientific center for deep EM studies in the city of Apatity, Kola Peninsula. He also was giving lectures in several universities and had a number of prominent students.

He was a keen explorer, light and cheerful person extending interests and skills much wider than geophysics. We will always miss him.

Nick Palshin, Ivan Varentsov and Toivo Korja on behalf of IAVA Division VI

_{(Photo taken from: Federal Research Centre "Kola Science Centre of RAS")}