Alexander Yanshin
Alexander Leonidovich Yanshin was a Soviet Russian geologist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
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.
