Career
1870s - formed a scientific circle of the chemistry lovers and was also one of the founders of the chemical laboratory at the University of Novorossiia.
1864 - was the first to obtain benzidine in the process of affecting nitrobenzene with sodium amalgam involving acetic acid.
1865 - developed a method to obtain azobenzene and its homologues on the basis of nitrocompounds, azotoluene.
contributed considerably to the improvement of the sanitary conditions in Odessa: investigated for many years the chemical composition of estuary waters and muds of therapeutic value.
was also the first to reveal the role of anaerobic microorganisms which renew sulfate salts with the formation of sulfured hydrogen
1880 - set up Russia’s first food research laboratory in Odessa