Alexander Yanshin
# Alexander Yanshin

Alexander Leonidovich Yanshin (Russian: Александр Леонидович Яншин; 1911, Smolensk - 1999, Moscow) was a Soviet Russian geologist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1958). From 1982 to 1988, Yanshin served as vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1967, Yanshin served as president of the Moscow Society of Naturalists.

His father was a lawyer. He studied at the Moscow State University.

He received the Candidate's degree from the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1937. In 1952, he defended his doctoral dissertation. He was elected a Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1958.

## Honors and awards

* Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1944)
* Order of the Badge of Honour (1945)
* Alexander Karpinsky Prize (1953)
* Order of Lenin (1967, 1971, 1981)
* USSR State Prize (1969, 1978)
* Alexander Karpinsky Gold Medal (1973)
* Hero of Socialist Labour (1981)
* Order of the October Revolution (1986)
* Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov Prize (1994)

## Links

* 1 2 3 4 "Яншин А.Л. - Общая информация". www.ras.ru. Retrieved 2018-05-31. Russian Academy of Sciences official site (in Russian)
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 С, Чесноков В.; Александрович, Агаджанян Николай (July 14, 2011). "Академик александр Леонидович Яншин к 100-летию со дня рождения". Экология человека (9) – via cyberleninka.ru.
