Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov

Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Бело́в; December 14, 1891 - 1982) was a Soviet crystallographer, geochemist, academician (1953), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1969).

Honours and awards

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• Hero of Socialist Labour (1969)
• Four Orders of Lenin (1961, 1969, 1971, 1981)
• Order of the October Revolution (1975)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1953)
• Medal for the Defence of Moscow (1944)
• Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 Medal (1946)
• 800th Anniversary of Moscow Medal (1948)
• Medal "For Labour Valour" (1967)
• Jubilee Medal "For Valiant Labour. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "(1970)
• Stalin Prize, 1st class (1952)
• Lenin Prize (1974)
• First Prize Fedorov (USSR, 1948)
• Lomonosov Gold Medal (1965)
• Gold Medal Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR (1962)
• Medal K. Ohridski (Sofia University K. Ohridski, Bulgaria, 1971)
• Honorary member of the All-Union Mineralogical Society (1964)
• First chairman of the National Committee of Soviet crystallographers (1955-1982)
• Member of the Board (1954), Vice-President (1957-1963), president (1966-1969) of the International Union of Crystallography
• Foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1978)
• Honorary Doctor of Wroclaw University B. Bierut (Poland, 1975)
• Honorary member of the Mineralogical Society USA (1960), England, Society of Mineralogy and Crystallography, France (1969), Geological Society of the GDR (1975), American Society of crystallographic (1969)