Valeri Leonidovich Barsukov ( March 14, 1928 – July 22, 1992) was a

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. 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 V. I. Vernadsky Gold Medal for his work. A

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was named after him.

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1928 births 1992 deaths Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences {{geologist-stub Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the USSR State Prize Russian geochemists 20th-century Russian geologists Soviet geochemists Soviet geologists Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery