Academician Yanshin, my dear teacher and friend

The book highlights the life and activity of an outstanding scientist, a wide profile naturalist: geologist, geographer, ecologist. The activity of A.L. Yanshina as a book lover, editor, publisher, biographer, historian, popularizer of science and public figure. The author of the book Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences R.G. Garetsky - student of A.L. Yanshina, worked with him for several decades and therefore knows life well, the scientific, scientific-organizational and social activities of the scientist. Many facts from the life and activity of A.L. Yanshina is successfully supported by excerpts from his letters to the author of the book, as well as numerous original photographs