Alexey Andreevich Spassky ( July 3, 1917 , Lukoyanov , Lukoyanovskiy Uyezd , Nizhny Novgorod Province , Russian Empire - June 26, 2006 , Moldova ) - Soviet parasitologist and editor , student of A. A. Sobolev.
| Alexey Andreevich Spassky | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | July 3, 1917 |
| Place of Birth | Lukoyanov , Lukoyanovskiy County , Nizhny Novgorod Province , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | June 26, 2006 (88 years) |
| Place of death | Moldavia |
| A country |  USSR →  Moldavia |
| Scientific field | Parasitology |
| Awards and prizes | KI Scriabin Prize |
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Biography
His father was a teacher of science, his mother was a teacher of the Russian language. After graduating from school, he entered the Lukoyanovsky Poultry Technical School, however, having studied 2 courses and without completing it, he left for Gorky , intending to enter the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Gorky University. He passed the exams perfectly, however, he was denied study because his parents were “rotten intellectuals”. He was advised to move to Sormovo and enroll in the biological faculty of the Gorky Pedagogical Institute, he did so and repeated excellent results on exams and entered there, and in 1938 he successfully graduated from it. In 1938, he got a job at the Gorky Medical Institute, where he worked at the Department of Biology and Anatomy until 1945. In 1941 he defended his thesis. From 1945 to 1961 he worked in the KI Scriabin Helminthological Laboratory. In 1949 he defended his doctoral thesis. In 1961 he moved to the Moldavian SSR, where until 1963 he headed the laboratory of parasitology of the Institute of Zoology. Awarded the KI Skryabin Prize , as well as a huge number of orders and medals.
Editorial activities
- Editor-in-chief of the journal Izvestiya of the Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR.
- Initiator of the creation of the Ichthyological Journal of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
- The initiator of the creation of the international journal Helminthology.
- Editor of the release of a dozen books and brochures.
Scientific Works
The main scientific works are devoted to general cestodology. Outstanding scientist of world renown, who wrote 1260 scientific papers and 10 monographs. He trained about 500 doctors of science (50 official and hundreds of unofficial ones), educated a galaxy of young scientists.
- Identified previously unknown morphological structures.
- He studied the ecology of various types of chains.
Selected Works
- Anoplocephalitis - tape worms of domestic and wild animals. - Chisinau: Shtiintsa, 1951.— 735 p.
- Basics of cestodology. 1951-1963.
- Spassky A. A., Andreiko O. F., Selivanova N. V. Echinococcosis and coenurosis of farm animals in Moldova and measures to combat these diseases / Acad. Sciences Moldavia. SSR. Institute of Zoology. - Chisinau: Shtiintsa, 1962. - 28 p.
- Spasskaya L.P. , Spassky A.A. Cestodes of birds of the USSR: Dilepidids of land birds. - M .: Science , 1977. - 300 p.
- Spasskaya L.P. , Spassky A.A. Cestodes of birds of the USSR: Dilepidids of limnophilic birds. - M .: Science , 1978. - 316 p.
Memberships
- 1961-91 - Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR .
- 1961-76 - Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR .
Literature
- Biologists: Biographical reference book / Authors: T. P. Babiy, L. L. Kokhanova, G. G. Kostyuk and others; Ed. ed. F. N. Serkov . - Kiev: Naukova Dumka , 1984. - p. 691. - 816 p. - 27 500 copies