Nikolay Belov (geochemist)
Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov was a Soviet and Russian crystallographer, geochemist, academician (1953), and Hero of Socialist Labour (1969).
Belov in 1952
Alexander Evgenyevich Fersman was a prominent Soviet Russian geochemist and mineralogist, and a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1919–1945).
Alexander Fersman
Fersman on a 1966 Soviet stamp
Fersman with his mentor Vernadsky in 1940