Sergey Konstantinovich Dahl ( 1904 - 1982 ) - Soviet scientist- zoologist and local historian , candidate of biological sciences (1936). The author of more than 100 scientific papers, including the fundamental work “Animal World of the Armenian USSR” (1954). Dahl's works were highly appreciated by B. B. Piotrovsky , N. K. Vereshchagin , N. O. Burchak-Abramovich and other scientists.
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Biography
Born May 28, 1904 in Simferopol in the family of a scientist-agronomist.
He graduated from Simferopol state gymnasium; then, in 1928 - the natural branch of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Simferopol State University . In 1929-1933 he worked as the head of the Dalokhotsoyuz biological station in the marmot hunting farm in Transbaikalia , studied sika deer and red deer in Primorye . [1] In the years 1934-1938 - assistant, associate professor, head of the Department of Zoology of the Uzbek University. Since 1938, S. K, Dahl was a senior researcher at the Biological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR.
Member of the Great Patriotic War, awarded military orders and medals. [2]
Until 1952, he was head of the vertebrate zoology sector of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR. Since 1959, he worked at the Stavropol Research Anti-Plague Institute. He was a member of the Academic Council of the Stavropol Museum of Local Lore.
He died on February 16, 1982 in Stavropol.
The lizard ( Darevskia dahli ), living in Armenia and Georgia, is named after the scientist. [3]