Nikolay Vasilyevich Belov (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Бело́в; December 14, 1891 – March 6, 1982) was a Soviet crystallographer, geochemist, academician (1953), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1969).
Honours and awards
Hero of Socialist Labour (1969)
Four Orders of Lenin (1961, 1969, 1971, 1981)
Order of the October Revolution (1975)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1953)
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" (1944)
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (1946)
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (1948)
Medal "For Labour Valour" (1967)
Jubilee Medal "For Valiant Labour. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970)
Stalin Prize, 1st class (1952)
Lenin Prize (1974)
First Prize Fedorov (USSR, 1948)
Lomonosov Gold Medal (1965)
Gold Medal Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR (1962)
Medal K. Ohridski (Sofia University K. Ohridski, Bulgaria, 1971)
Honorary member of the All-Union Mineralogical Society (1964)
First chairman of the National Committee of Soviet crystallographers (1955-1982)
Member of the Board (1954), Vice-President (1957-1963), president (1966-1969) of the International Union of Crystallography
Foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1978)
Honorary Doctor of Wroclaw University B. Bierut (Poland, 1975)
Honorary member of the Mineralogical Society USA (1960), England, Society of Mineralogy and Crystallography, France (1969), Geological Society of the GDR (1975), American Society of crystallographic (1969)
