Alexander Yanshin

Alexander Leonidovich Yanshin (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)