During the Second World War, Fersman was responsible for the evacuation of some 80,000 of the Museum of Mineralogy's most valuable specimens from Moscow in 1941, and their return in 1944.
1941年二战期间，费斯曼负责将博物馆8万件最有价值的矿物标本疏散出莫斯科，并在1944年全部安全运回。