Objects named after V.I.Vernadsky

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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.

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