Nikolay Shatsky - Wikipedia

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Nikolay Sergeyevich Shatsky, also spelt Nicholas Shatski (Template:Lang-ru; August 28 [O.S. August 16] 1895 in Moscow – August 1, 1960 in Moscow) was a Soviet geologist, an expert in tectonics of ancient platforms.^[1]

Shatsky Rise, an oceanic plateau in North Pacific is named after him.

Since 1982 the USSR Academy of Sciences/Russian Academy of Sciences has awarded the annual Shatsky Prize (ru:Премия имени Н. С. Шатского) for achievements in tectonics.^[2]

Awards

1946: Stalin Prize
1958: Lenin Prize, for the composition of the tectonic map of the Soviet Union
Order of Lenin (2)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Medals

References

^ Шатский Николай Сергеевич, an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
^ Shatsky Prize website

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