Awards and Honors
- Hero of Socialist Labor (1945)
- The Przhevalsky Prize
- The Great Gold Medal of the Russian Geographical Society
- Two Chikhachov Prizes from the French Academy of Sciences (1898 and 1925)
- The first ever Karpinsky Gold Medal (1947)
- The Lenin Prize (1926)
- The Stalin Prizes (1941, 1950)
- Five Orders of Lenin
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and numerous medals.
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