Background
NIKOL’SKIY, Aleksandr was born on March 4, 1858 in Astrakhan’. Son of military surgeon.
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Aleksandr Mikhaylovich NIKOL’SKIY
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1881 graduate Natural Sciences Department, Physics and Mathematics Faculty, Saint St. Petersburg University.
Career
From 1887 associate professor From 1896 zoologist, Zoological Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint St. Petersburg. 1903-1920's professor, Khar’kov University.
1921 — 26 professor, Khar’kov Institute of Education and Khar’kovMed Institute. From 1926 head Department of Zoological Research, Khar’kov University. 1881-1891 took part in expeditions to Murmansk littoral, Sakhalin, Lake Balkhash, Japan, Transcaspian, Iran and Crimea.
1922-1923 consultant, Ochakov Indiana Research Station. Catalogued some 70 new species of vertebrates. Wrote over 120 research works on zoology, zoogeography and comparative anatomy.
PubhPozvonoclinyye zhivotnyye Kryma (Vertebrates of the Crimea) (1891). Ceografiya zhivotnykh (Animal Geography) (1909). Viznachnyk ryb Ukrainy (An Index of Ukrainian Fish) (1930).
Religion
Religion is bad because it stops people thinking in a rational and objective way.
Views
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Membership
Member, Ukraine Academy of Sciences from 1919.
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Nationality
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics