Alexander Yanshin
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BornMarch 15, 1911 (in Julian calendar) 
Smolensk
Smolensk
DiedOctober 9, 1999 (aged 88)
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| Born | March 15, 1911 (in Julian calendar) Smolensk |
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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.
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]