State University. In 1986 he returned to Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) to head the geometry laboratory at LOMI. Aleksandrov's main work was in the study of differential geometry and physics. His work in geometry specifically is said to be second only to Gauss by N V Efimov, V A Zalgaller and A V Pogorelov. Awards Partial list of the awards, medals, and prizes awarded to Aleksandrov: Stalin Prize (1942) Lobachevsky International Prize (1951) Euler Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1992) One of the many orders that he was awarded was given to him in 1990 for his efforts in preserving genetics from the attacks of the pseudoscience of Lysenkoism that had official state support in the times of Stalin and Khrushchev. Works by Aleksandrov Aleksandrov wrote a multitude of books, scientific papers, textbooks for various levels (schools to universities), including Convex Polyhedra, originally published in Russian in 1950 and translated into English in 2005. He also wrote non-mathematical papers, memoirs about famous scientists, and philosophical essays dealing with the moral values of science. A full bibliography is available in [1]. Selected works are available in English: Alexandrov, A.D. Selected works. Part 1: Selected scientific papers. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach Publishers. x, 322 p. (1996). Alexandrov, A.D. Selected works. Intrinsic geometry of convex surfaces. Vol. 2. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC. xiii, 426 p. (2005). Alexandrov, A.D. Convex polyhedra. Springer: Berlin. xi, 539 p. (2005). (1st edition, 1950) Alexandrov, A.D. Die innere Geometrie der konvexen Flächen. Akademie Verlag. (1955). (German translation of 1948 Russian original) Students of Aleksandrov I. Liberman, S. Olovianishnikoff, P. Kostelyanetz — all the three of them died on the battlefields of World War II A. Pogorelov — from Kharkov A. Yusupov — from Bukhara Students from the Aleksandrov Leningrad period (ordered by the time of joining the seminars): Yu. Borisov, V. Zalgaller, Yu. Reshetnyak, I. Bakelman, Yu. Volkov, A. Zamorzaev, S. Bogacheva (who later married Aleksandrov), Yu. Borovskii, R. Pimenov Sobchuk and Starokhozyayev — from Ukraine G. Rusiyeshvili — from Georgia (country) B. Frank and H. Frank — from Germany Yu. Burago, V. Kreinovich; Grigori Perelman Moved from Alma-Ata after Aleksandrov's lecture tour there: M. Kvachko, V. Ovchinnikova, E. Sen'kin Stayed in Alma-Ata: A. Zilberberg, V. Strel'cov, D. Yusupov Novosibirsk students: A. Guts, A. Kuz'minykh, A. Levichev, and A. Shaidenko. Both in St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk Aleksandrov participated in joint research also with