Boris Mikhailovich Zavadovsky (Russian: Борис Михайлович Завадовский; 13 January 1895, Elisavetgrad – 31 March 1951,

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) was a Russian Soviet physiologist and who founded the in 1922. He is noted for his pioneering research into the function of the

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. He also studied the effects of

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on the body. He developed a

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approach to

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which he described in
Marxist Exhibition Methods for Natural Science Museums
(1931) which he presented at the First All-Russian Museum Congress held in

in 1930. He also attended the

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as part of the Soviet delegation contributing
The "Physical" and "Biological" in the Process of Organic Evolution"
to the anthology of their contributions '' Science at the Crossroads''. At the time he was one of two non-party members of the delegation, but he joined the Communist Party in 1932. Although Zavadovsky considered himself a Marxist biologist, he was an open critic of

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during the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zavadovsky, Boris 1895 births 1951 deaths Russian physiologists People from Yelisavetgradsky Uyezd