Background
KNIPOVICH, Nikolay was born on April 6, 1862 in Suomcnlinna /Sveaborg/. Son of a physician.
KNIPOVICH, Nikolay was born on April 6, 1862 in Suomcnlinna /Sveaborg/. Son of a physician.
1886 graduate Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Saint St. Petersburg University.
1887 imprisoned for involvement with Doctorate. North. Blagoyev’s Social-Democratic group and kept under police surveillance for five years after release. 1892 defended masters thesis on Ascothoracida. 1893 associate professor, Saint St. Petersburg University.
Fired for political unreliability. 1894-1921 sci custodian, junior and senior zoologist, Zoological Museum (now Zoological Institute), Saint St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. From 1898 vice-president, International Marine Research Council.
1911-1930 professor, Chair of Zoology and General Biology', Women's (1st Leningrad) Medical Institute. 1921 commissioned by Lenin to take part in talks with Finland. 1927-1935 correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
Helped to organize Soviet fishing industry. Organized and led numerous occanological expeditions: 1898-1901 in the Sea of Murmansk, for which the world's first oceanographic vessel, the Audrey Pervozvannyy, was built. 1886, 1904, 1912-1913 and 1914-1915 in the Caspian Sea.
1902 in the Baltic Sea. 1922-1927 in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. 1931-1932 led the All-Caspian Expedition.
Organized and took active part in numerous sci commissions and conferences. Helped found various marine research institute Apart from sci works wrote numerous popular-sci books
Since religion offers a complete set of answers to the problems of purpose, morality, origins, or science, it discourages exploration of those areas by suppressing curiosity, denies its followers a broader perspective, and prevents social, moral and scientific progress.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Honorary member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1935.