Valeri Barsukov

{{Short description|Georgian geologist}}

{{Infobox scientist

|name = Valeri Barsukov

|image = Barsukov Valery Leonidovich.jpg

|caption = Barsukov, {{circa}} 1986

|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1928|3|14}}

|birth_place = Moscow, Soviet Union

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1992|7|22|1928|3|14}}

|death_place = Moscow, Russia

|nationality = Russian

|field = Geology

|work_institutions =

|alma_mater = Russian State Geological Prospecting University

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Valeri Leonidovich Barsukov ({{langx|ru|Валерий Леонидович Барсуков;}} March 14, 1928 – July 22, 1992) was a Soviet geologist.{{Cite book|title = Soviet Robots in the Solar System: Mission Technologies and Discoveries|last1 = Huntress, Jr.|first1 = Wesley T.|publisher = Spring Science + Business Media|year = 2011|isbn = 9781441978981|location = New York|pages = 19|last2 = Marov|first2 = Mikhail Ya.|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rgl_C0XrKTUC}} He worked in comparative planetology and the geochemistry 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.

{{cite news

|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-5458490_ITM

|title=Soviets looking at manned moon mission by 2000. | work= Defense Daily

|accessdate=2008-06-22

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| date=July 20, 1989

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