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.^[1] From 1967, Yanshin served as president of the Moscow Society of Naturalists.

Alexander Yanshin
Born	March 15, 1911 (in Julian calendar)  Smolensk
Died	October 9, 1999  (aged 88)
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His father was a lawyer.^[2] He studied at the Moscow State University.^[2]

He received the Candidate's degree from the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1937.^[2] In 1952, he defended his doctoral dissertation.^[2] He was elected a Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1958.^[1]

Honors and awards

• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1944)^[2]
• Order of the Badge of Honour (1945)^[2]
• Alexander Karpinsky Prize (1953)^[2]
• Order of Lenin (1967, 1971, 1981)^[2]
• USSR State Prize (1969, 1978)^[2]
• Alexander Karpinsky Gold Medal (1973)^[1]
• Hero of Socialist Labour (1981)^[2]
• Order of the October Revolution (1986)^[2]
• Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov Prize (1994)^[1]