Education
Russian State Geological Prospecting University.
Russian State Geological Prospecting University.
He worked in comparative planetology and the geochemistry of space. He was director of the V. I. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry from 1976 to 1992. In 1987 he received the Virgin Islands Vernadsky Gold Medal for his work.
A crater on Mars was named after him.
Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.