Valeri Leonidovich Barsukov (Russian: Валерий Леонидович Барсуков; March 14, 1928 – July 22, 1992) was a Soviet geologist. He worked in comparative planetology and the geochemistry ...
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of space. He was director of the V. I. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry from 1976 to 1992. In 1987 he received the V. I. Vernadsky Gold Medal for his work. A crater on Mars was named after him.
