Awards and Honors
- President of the Association of American Geographers (1957)
- President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (1962)
- Councilor of the American Geographical Society from 1961-1974
- Secretary-general and treasurer of the International Geographical Union (1968-1976)
- Vice President of the American Geographical Society from 1969-1974
- Longtime member of the editorial board of the American Geographical Society's Geographical Review
- Was a key player in the founding of the American Geographical Society's Soviet Geography
- Co-editor of Soviet Geography for many years
- In 1985 the American Geographical Society awarded him The Cullum Geographical Medal
- In 1987 the Royal Geographical Society awarded him the Victoria Medal
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