Juri Polanski

Yurii Polianskyi (; 6 March 1892, Zhovtantsi, now Lviv Oblast – 19 July 1975, Buenos Aires, Argentina ) was a Ukrainian geographer, geomorphologist, geologist, archaeologist.

In 1928, he received a doctorate in geography. In 1930, he became a professor, and in 1956 an academician of the Argentine Academy of Sciences. From 1927 he has been a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.

Biography He received his first education at the University of Vienna. In 1918, he graduated from University of Lviv.

Works Polianskyi's research interests included the problems of geomorphology, Quaternary geology and archeology of Podillia, the Dniester basin and Western Polissia, as well as geology, geomorphology and neotectonics of Argentina.

From 1923 he conducted archaeological research in the villages of Ternopil Oblast. He discovered more than 70 Paleolithic sites in the Dniester basin.