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Vasily Mikhaylovich Sinitsyn
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LOCATION: St. Petersburg, Russia

BIOGRAPHY

Professor and Head, Laboratory of Paleogeography, Leningrad A.A. Zhdanov State University, 1961–77; Dean, Department of Geology, 1965–72.

Primary Contributions (1)
The Kunlun and Pamir mountain ranges.
Kunlun Mountains, mountain system of southern Central Asia. The Kunluns extend west to east some 1,250 miles (2,000 km), from the Pamirs in Tajikistan in the west to the Kunlun Pass and the adjacent ranges of central Qinghai province in China in the east—Burhan Budai, Bayan Har, and A’nyêmaqên…
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