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Nikolay Shatsky

Soviet geologist

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Nikolay Sergeyevich Shatsky, also spelt Nicholas Shatski (Russian: Николай Серге́евич Шатский; August 28 [O.S. August 16] 1895 in Moscow – August 1, 1960 in Moscow) was a Soviet geologist, an expert in tectonics of ancient platforms.^[1]

Shatsky Rise, an oceanic plateauinNorth 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.^[2]

• 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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