Yanshin Alexander L.

Genus. 28.III.1911 g. Prominent scientist, organizer of science and public figure. Academician of the USSR (1958). Vice-President of the USSR (1982 - 1988). Academician, President of Russia Environmental Academy (1993). International Academy of Ecology and Safety of man and nature. Held a number of fundamental geological studies of Asia (USSR, Mongolia, China). Recognized as the leader of the environmental movement in the country. Persistently and successfully defended the abolition of transferring water from the northern rivers to the south, scientifically proven wrong some of the major projects to transform nature. One of the founders of tectonic maps of the Soviet Union and Eurasia. Director of the Institute of the lithosphere USSR. Supervised by the Scientific Council on the biosphere, the Commission for the Study of the Quaternary period, the Commission for the Study of Earth's natural resources, using space assets, the Commission for the Study of the scientific heritage of Academician. V. I. Vernadsky, the International Foundation. I. Vernadsky, Scientific Publishing Council and many other academic and scientific publishing organizations USSR. Initiator and founder of many social scientific associations. After 1982. greatly expanded its scientific ties with the Leningrad organization in the history of science, ecology, space exploration. Organizer and active participant in many meetings, as well as environmental impact assessments, results of work of scientific and engineering institutes in Leningrad. President of the oldest in Russia, the Moscow Society of Naturalists (MOIP) (1967). Thoughtful, benevolent leader of large research groups and teams working in different fields of science and technology. Limit dedication science, . astonishing breadth and diversity of interests, . depth and thoroughness of research, . acute sense of the new, . encyclopedic knowledge (including history, . poetry, . art), . bright passionate speech, . involved not only the content, . but great oratorical skill, . extremely high human qualities (citizenship, . willpower, . courage, . sociability, . accessibility, . sense of humor) are the distinctive features of his personality,
. Member of a number of domestic and foreign scientific academies and societies. In 1959, Mr.. founded a series of scientific and biographical literature (in a series published over 500 scientific biographies). Awarded sign RANS I degree of Merit (1996). Hero of Socialist Labor (1981). State Prize (1969, 1978). Order of Merit to the Fatherland "(1996).