Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Saukova

Born Aug. 2 (15), 1902, in the village of Churilovo, in what is now Nekouz Raion, Yaroslavl Oblast; died Oct. 23, 1964, in Moscow. Soviet geochemist. Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1953). A student of A. E. Fersman. Member of the CPSU from 1945.