Background
KASHKAROV, Daniil was born on March 30, 1878 in Ryazan’.
KASHKAROV, Daniil was born on March 30, 1878 in Ryazan’.
1903 graduate Natural Sei Department, 1908 Medical Faculty, Moscow University.
From 1908 worked in Tiibingen, Graz, Vienna and Bergen. From 1914 lecturer, Moscow University. 1916 defended master’s thesis on zoology and comparative anatomy.
1919-1933 head, Chair of Vertebrate Zoology, Ccntr Asian University, Tashkent. 1934-1941 head, Chair of Vertebrate Zoology, Leningrad University. Made numerous field trips to study vertebrate animals of Centr Asia.
Favored the ecological approach to the study of animals. 1934-1939 ed, periodical “Voprosy ekologii biotsenologii”.
Religion is bad because it stops people thinking in a rational and objective way.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Communist Party member from 1941.