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List of Russian biologists

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This list of Russian biologists includes the famous biologists from the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia. Biologists of all specialities may be listed here, including ecologists, botanists, zoologists, paleontologists, biochemists, physiologists and others.

Alphabetical list

A Johann Friedrich Adam, discoverer of the Adams mammoth, the first complete woolly mammoth skeleton Igor Akimushkin, biologist Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii, paleontologist Nicolai Andrusov, paleontologist Andrey Avinoff, entomologist Anatoly Andriyashev, ichthyologist, zoogeographist

B Karl Ernst von Baer, naturalist, founder of the Russian Entomological Society, formulated embryological Baer's laws Alexander Barchenko, notable for his research of Hyperborea Jacques von Bedriaga, prominent herpetologist, described Bedriaga's rock lizard and Bedriaga's skink Andrey Belozersky, founder of molecular biology Dmitry Belyayev, domesticated silver fox Lev Berg, ichthyologist of Central Asia and European Russia Yuli Berkovich, experimented with seed germination in zero gravity Nikolai Bernstein, neurophysiologist, coined the term biomechanics Vladimir Betz, discovered giant pyramidal neurons of primary motor cortex Anatoli Petrovich Bogdanov, biologist Andrey Bolotov, major 18th-century agriculturist, discovered dichogamy, pioneered cross-pollination August von Bongard, botanist of Alaska, discoverer of Sitka spruce and red alder Antonina Borissova, botanist Zinaida Botschantzeva, botanist Alexander Bunge, major botanist of Siberia (especially Altai) Alexey Bystrow, paleontologist

C Alexander Catsch, medical doctor and radiation biologist Mikhail Chailakhyan, researcher of flowering, described the florigen hormone Maria Cherkasova, ecologist Evgeny Chernikin, biologist Feodosy Chernyshov, paleontologist Sergei Chetverikov, pioneer of modern evolutionary synthesis Pyotr Chikhachyov, naturalist Alexander Chizhevsky, founder of heliobiology and modern air ionification

D Ilya Darevsky, biologist Nikolay Dubinin, studied the genetic basis of the human individuality in different populations; studied variability and heritability of neuro, and psychodynamic parameters

E Vladimir Efroimson, Soviet geneticist Andrey Erst, botanist Kirill Eskov, biologist, discovered several new genera of spiders Eduard Eversmann, biologist and explorer, pioneer researcher of flora and fauna of southern Russia

F Andrey Famintsyn, plant physiologist, inventor of grow lamp, developer of symbiogenesis theory Mikhail A. Fedonkin, paleontologist Yuri Filipchenko, entomologist, coined the terms microevolution and macroevolution

G Oleg Gazenko, zoologist Johann Georg Gmelin, first researcher of Siberian flora Viktor Grebennikov, naturalist and entomologist, claimed to have built a levitation platform by attaching dead insect body parts to the underside Ilya Gruzinov, discovered the source for deep vocal sound is the membrane Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, zoologist and geographer, obtained two Przewalski's horses and more than 1000 bird specimens from his travels in Central Asia Alexander Gurwitsch, originated the morphogenetic field theory and discovered the biophoton

I Ilya Ivanov, researcher of artificial insemination and the interspecific hybridization of animals, involved in controversial attempts to create a human-ape hybrid Dmitry Ivanovsky, discoverer of viruses

J Hans Johansen, zoologist Hermann Johansen, zoologist

Georgii Karpechenko, inventor of rabbage, an early experimental allopolyploid and non-sterile hybrid obtained through crossbreeding of distant species Karl Fedorovich Kessler, zoologist Alexander Keyserling, zoologist Nikolai Koltsov, discoverer of cytoskeleton Vladimir Komarov, plant geographer, President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, founder of the Komarov Botanical Institute Aleksei Alekseevich Korotnev, zoologist Alexander Kovalevsky, embryologist, major researcher of gastrulation Vladimir Kovalevsky, studied the effect of meteorological, hydrological, and temperature factors on harvest Alexey Kondrashov, works on evolutionary genetics. Developed the deterministic mutation hypothesis explaining the maintenance of sexual reproduction, sympatric speciation, and evaluated mutation rates Boris Kozo-Polyansky, botanist, and evolutionary biologist. First to support the theory of symbiogenesis with Darwinian evolution, and first director of The B.M. Kozo-Polyansky Botanical Garden of Voronezh State University. August David Krohn, pioneer in marine biology and published essential works on Chaetognatha (arrow worms) Peter Kropotkin zoologist Ludmila Kuprianova, botanist Andrei Kursanov, major physiologist and biochemist Sergei Kurzanov, paleontologist Nikolai Jakovlevice Kusnezov, entomologist

L Alexander Lebedev, known for his work on the biochemical basis of behavior Olga Lepeshinskaya, advocate of spontaneous generation Ivan Lepyokhin, botanist Peter Lesgaft, founder of the modern system of physical education, one of the founders of theoretical anatomy Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky, botanist Dmitry Litvinov, botanist Trofim Lysenko, agronomist, developer of yarovization, infamous for lysenkoism

M Evgeny Maleev, discoverer of Talarurus, Tarbosaurus, and Therizinosaurus Karl Maximovich, pioneer researcher of the Far Eastern flora Ilya Mechnikov, pioneer researcher of immune system, probiotics and phagocytosis, coined the term gerontology, Nobel Prize in Medicine winner Zhores Medvedev, biologist Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, botanist Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, ethnologist Sergei Mirkin, DNA researcher Andrey Vasilyevich Martynov, entomologist Mikhail Menzbier, major ornithologist, discoverer of the Menzbier's marmot Konstantin Merezhkovsky, major lichenologist, developer of symbiogenesis theory, a founder of endosymbiosis theory Ivan Michurin, pomologist, selectionist and geneticist, practiced crossing of geographically distant plants, created hundreds of fruit cultivars Alexander Middendorf, zoologist and explorer, studied the influence of permafrost on living beings, coined the term "radula", horse breeder Victor Motschulsky, coleopterologist (researcher of beetles) Dmitrii Mushketov, paleontologist

N Sergei Navashin, discovered double fertilization Alexander Mikhailovich Nikolsky, zoologist

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