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to 1955; for the institutes of zoology from 1955 to 1957, and the institutes of cytology
of the AN SSSR from 1957 to 1966. In 1966, he moved to Vladivostok to
become founding Director (in 1970) of the Institute of Marine Biology of the
Russian Academy of Sciences Far Eastern Department (then Far Eastern Scientific
Center). His works are in cell physiology, the experimental ecology of Marine
animals, cellular ecology, and general and comparative physiology. He was
replaced as Director of the Marine Biology Institute in 1988. He holds the Chair in
Marine Biology at the Far East State University. He has authored some 270
scientific works. (GSE 30, p. 741.)
Corresponding Members
Altukhov, Iurii P. Born in 1936. Corresponding member of the General Biology
Department of the Academy in 1993. He has been a Deputy Director of the General
Genetics Institute in Moscow since 1975. He is currently the Director of that
institute, now called the N. I Vavilov General Genetics Institute.
Andreev, Lev. N., C. Bio. S. Born in 1931. Corresponding member of the General
Biology Department of the Academy since 1984. Since 1981, he has been Director
of the Main Botanical Garden in Moscow. Founded in 1945 and opened to the
public in 1959. Special collections at the gardens include native flora of Russia,
trees and shrubs, ornamental perennials, tropical and subtropical plants, cacti and
succulents, cultivated plants such as cereal, fruit, berry, vegetables, and medicinal
plants. There are some 267,000 specimens in the herbarium, and some 16,500
specimens in the horticultural herbarium. He is currently a Deputy to the
Academician Secretary of the General Biology Department of the Academy.
Andriashev, Anatolii P., D. Bio. S. Born in 1910. Russian ichthyologist and
zoogeographer. Corresponding member of the General Biology Department of the
Academy since 1966. He graduated from Leningrad State University in 1933 and
worked there until 1939. He later worked at the Sevastapol Biological Station and
in 1944, at the Zoological Institute of the Academy. He was a member of the first
(1955-56) and the third (1957-58) Antarctic expeditions and served as the USSR
representative on the International Committee for the Study of the Arctic. Director
of the Botanical Garden in Moscow. Since 1973, he has been a senior researcher
of the Laboratory of Ichthyology of the Zoology Institute. (GSE 2, p. 93.)
Chernov, Iurii I. Corresponding member of the General Biology Department of the
Academy since December 1987.
Darevskii, Ilia S., D. Bio. S. Corresponding member of the General Biology
Department of the Academy since December of 1987. Head of the Herpetology and
Ornithology Laboratory of the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg since 1967. In
1987, he was the recipient of the I. I. Mechnikov Prize in biology for his research
work. (LDA 89-11378.)
Gorlenko, Mikhail V. Born in 1908 in Vladimir. Russian mycologist and phytopathologist.
Corresponding member since 1976. He graduated from the University
of Voronezh in 1930. From 1931 to 1941, he was a researcher at the Voronezh
Plant Protection Station. From 1941 to 1955, he headed the laboratory of the
Moscow Plant Protection Station at the All-Union Institute of Plant Protection. In
1948, he became Director of that station. He was named Head of the
subdepartment of lower plants at Moscow State University in 1955. His studies are
in immunity of plants to fungus and bacterial diseases and the origin and evolution
of parasitism in phytopathogenic micro-organisms. (GSE 30, p. 387.)
Inge-Vechtomov, Sergei G. Corresponding member of the General Biology
Department of the Academy since December 1987. (LDA 89-11378.)
Kontrimavichus, Vitautas L., D. Bio. S. Born in 1930 in Kaunas. Russian
helminthologist. Corresponding member of the General Biology department and of
the Far Eastern department since 1970. Academician of the Chemical,
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