Objects named after V.I.Vernadsky
The name of the Academician V.I.Vernadsky is widely
known not only in Russia but all over the world.
His name is given to:
- State museum of geology (Moscow),
- All-Russian people's University for biosphere knowledges (Moscow),
- the library of the Sciences Academy of the Ukraine,
- Institute
of geochemistry and analytical chemistry (Moscow),
- Biosphere museum (St.Petersburg),
- students' sociological center “Noosphere” (Bauman Moscow State University),
- the crater at the back side of the Moon,
- the peak in the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska river,
- a volcano on Paramushir Island (Kuril Isles),
- glacial mountains in the Eastern Antarctica,
- a submarine volcano in the Atlantic Ocean,
- a new sulphate mineral "vernadite",
- a new species of diatoms,
- a mine in the Transbaikalian area,
- an underground station the Vernadsky's Avenue in Moscow,
- the station Vernadovka at the Kazan railway,
- a settlement Vernadovka near Simferopol,
- the research ship Academician Vernadsky,
- the steamship The geologist Vernadsky,
- an
avenue in Moscow,
- an
avenue in Kiev,
- Nongovernmental Ecological V.I.Vernadsky Foundation, which instituted the Medal
“For the Contribution to Sustainable Development” (1997).
- the golden medal and prizes in honor of Vernadsky (awarded by the
Russian Academy of Sciences).
- To the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a Commission for
studies in the scientific heritage of Vernadsky is attached.
To title page about Vernadsky