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Wladimir Vladimir Nikolayevich Beklemishev Edit Profile

Zoologist

Vladimir Nikolayevich Beklemishev was a Russian zoologist and entomologist.

Education

Saint St. Petersburg State University.

Career

Beklemishev began his career at Saint St. Petersburg University. In 1918 he moved to Permanent where he held the post of a docent at the recently opened Permanent University, becoming professor of the same university in 1920. After 1932 he was the head of the Division of Entomology of the Institute of Malaria and Medical Parasitology in Moscow (now the Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine (IM).

After 1934 he became the professor of the Department of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy of Moscow State University.

Achievements

  • Beklemishev was an active member of the Academy of Medical Sciences (AMN) (1945) and Polish Academy of Sciences (1949), an Honoured Scientist OF THE Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1947) and twice received the Stalin Prize award (1944, 1952).