title: Alexander Yanshin
text: # 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.
  