Background
KOSHTOYANTS, Khachatur was born on September 26, 1900 in Aleksandropol’ (now Leninakan), Armenian
KOSHTOYANTS, Khachatur was born on September 26, 1900 in Aleksandropol’ (now Leninakan), Armenian
1926 graduate Medical Faculty, 2nd Moscow University. Completed postgraduate studies at Timiryazev Biological Research Institute, Moscow.
1915-1921 pharmacy worker in Pyatigorsk, Northern Caucasus. 1920-1921 laboratory assistant, Pyatigorsk Balneological Institute and lecturer, Pyatigorsk People's University. 1923-1930 head, Workers’ Faculty, Karl Liebknecht Indiana Teachers’ Training Institute, Moscow.
1928-1929 assistant professor, Chair of Physiology, Moscow University. 1929-1937 head Biology Department and member, Timiryazev Agric Institute, Moscow, where he established a laboratory of comparative physiology in 1930. From 1930 bd member, Moscow and AllUnion Social of Physiologists, Biochemists and Pharmacologists.
1930-1931 sent to Holland to study Dutch laboratories of comparative physiology. 1933-1936 head Department of Evolutionary Physiology. 1937-1943 deputy director, Severtsev Institute of Animal Morphology.
1939-1947 acad secretary, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Acd of Sciences. 1943-1961 head Chair of Animal Physiology. Biology Faculty, Moscow University.
1943-1946 acad secretary, Department of Biological Sciences, Arm Academy of Sciences. 1946-1953 director, Institute of the History of Natural Sciences, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Chief educated physiology section, Bol'shaya meditsinskaya entsililopediya (Large Medical Encyclopedia) (2nd ed).
1951-1952 deputy chief ed, journal Vestnik Akademii nauk Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Wrote over 300 works.
Religion discourages exploration of science and universe by suppressing curiosity, and denies its followers a broader perspective.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1939. Member. Arm Academy of Sciences from 1943. Communist Party member from 1927.