Background
ORLOV, Yuriy was born in 1893 in village Tomishovo, Simbirsk Province.
Paleontologist and histologist
ORLOV, Yuriy was born in 1893 in village Tomishovo, Simbirsk Province.
1917 graduate Natural Sciences Department, Physics and Mathematics Faculty, Petrograd University.
1917-1924 taught histology at Permanent’ University. 1924-1937 taught histology at Leningrad Military Medical Academy. 1933-1941 professor of paleontology, Leningrad University.
From 1943 until death professor of paleontology, Moscow State University. 1929-1945 senior associate, Institute of Paleontology, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. 1945-1966 director of this institute
From 1959 founder and chief cd, journal “Paleontologicheskiy zhumal”. 1953-1960 correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Made comparative morphological study of nervous system of invertebrates.
Studied fauna of Neogene and other vertebrates of Western Siberia, Kaz and Ukraine.
Religiously inspired people justify violence, resist social changes, and attack on science.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1960.