Nikolay Sergeyevich Shatsky, also spelt Nicholas Shatski (; in Moscow – August 1, 1960 in Moscow) was a Soviet geologist, an expert in tectonics of ancient platforms.Шатский Николай Сергеевич, an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Shatsky Rise, an oceanic plateau in North Pacific is named after him.
Since 1982 the USSR Academy of Sciences/Russian Academy of Sciences has awarded the annual Shatsky Prize (:ru:Премия имени Н. С. Шатского) for achievements in tectonics.Shatsky Prize website
Awards 1946: Stalin Prize 1958: Lenin Prize, for the composition of the tectonic map of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin (2) Order of the Red Banner of Labour Medals
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