Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov (russian: Алекса́ндр Па́влович Виногра́дов) (August 21, 1895 in Petretsovo, Yaroslavl Oblast – November 16, 1975 in Moscow) was a Soviet geochemist, academician (1953), and

Hero of Socialist Labour The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...

(1949, 1975). In 1928, he took up a position as assistant professor in the laboratory for biogeochemical problems of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He was director of Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Mons Vinogradov, a mountain on the near side of the moon, is named after him. So is a large crater on Mars.Vinogradov
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)

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1895 births 1975 deaths People from Yaroslavl Oblast Foreign Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy Foreign Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy alumni Heroes of Socialist Labour Stalin Prize winners Lenin Prize winners Recipients of the Lomonosov Gold Medal Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Russian geochemists Soviet geochemists {{Russia-chemist-stub Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery