Background
ZAVARZIN, Aleksey was born on March 25, 1886.
ZAVARZIN, Aleksey was born on March 25, 1886.
1907 graduate Natural Sciences Department, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Saint St. Petersburg University.
After graduate assistant to professor A. South. Dogel’, Chair of Histology, Saint St. Petersburg University. 1913 defended doctor’s thesis on the sensory nerve system and optic ganglia of insects. From 1916 professor, Chair of Histology, Permanent’ Branch, Petrograd University.
From 1922 professor Chair of Histology, Petrograd (Leningrad) Military Medical Academy. 1932 founded Department of General Morphology, All-Union Institute of Experimental Medical From 1944 also director, Moscow Institute of Cytology, Histology and Embryology, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
Did research on the comparative histology of blood, connective tissue, the epithelium and the nervous system. Also studied tissue evolution, the morphological concept of histological structure, et cetera Devised theory of parallelisms, according to which tissues subject to the same forms of interrelationship between organism and environment display similar structural and evolutionary features in different types of animals.
This theory came under heavy criticism during Stalin’s rule. Founder, Leningrad Social of Anatomists, Histologists and Embryologists. Editor, journal “Arkhiv anatomii, gistologii i embriologii”.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1943. Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Medical Sciences from 1944.