Konstantin Ivanovich Skryabin (russian: Константин Иванович Скрябин; – 17 September 1972) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

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in the field of

Helminthology Helminthology is the study of parasitic worms (helminths). The field studies the taxonomy of helminths and their effects on their hosts. The origin of the first compound of the word is the Greek '' ἕλμινς'' - helmins, meaning "worm". In ...

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of the

USSR Academy of Sciences The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991, uniting the country's leading scientists, subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (until 1946 ...

(1939),Russian Academy of Sciences
(in Russian) academician of USSR Academy of Medical Sciences,

Hero of Socialist Labor The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...

(1958), winner of Stalin Prize and Lenin Prize. He was a founder of the helminthology school, and an author of landmark books on helminths in Soviet Union.

Life

Konstantin Ivanovich Skryabin was born on in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. In 1905 he graduated from Dorpat (Tartu) Veterinary Institute. From 1905 to 1911 Skryabin worked as a veterinary physician in

Aulie-Ata Taraz ( kz, Тараз, تاراز, translit=Taraz ; known to Europeans as Talas) is a city and the administrative center of Jambyl Region in Kazakhstan, located on the Talas (Taraz) River in the south of the country near the border with Kyrgyz ...

and

Shymkent Shymkent (; Шымкент, Şymkent), known until 1993 as Chimkent ( uz, Çımkent, چىمكېنت; Yañalif: Çimkent ()); russian: Чимкент, translit=Chimkent (), is a city in Kazakhstan. It is near the border with Uzbekistan. It is on ...

. In 1912 to 1914 he was sent on assignment mission to

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, Switzerland, and

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. From 1915 to 1917, Skryabin worked as a researcher in the Central Veterinary Laboratory of Saint Petersburg. In 1917 he became a professor of the Parasitology Department of Don Veterinary Institute in

Novocherkassk Novocherkassk (russian: Новочерка́сск, lit. ''New Cherkassk'') is a city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located near the confluence of the Tuzlov and Aksay Rivers, the latter a distributary of the Don River. Novocherkassk is best known ...

. He was a Head of the Department of the Moscow Veterinary Institute (1920-1925) and (1933-1941), and at the same time Head of Helminthology Division of the Central Tropical Institute (1921-1941).

Eponymous taxa

About 40

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial ...

were named after Skryabin: * Skrjabinella *Skrjabinodentus *Skrjabinocercella *Skrjabinoeces *Skrjabinostrongylus *Skrjabinobilharzia *Skrjabinobronema *Skrjabinocapillaria *Skrjabinocara *Skrjabinocerca *Skrjabinocercella *Skrjabinocerina *Skrjabinochona *Skrjabinochora *Skrjabinocladorchis *Skrjabinoclava *Skrjabinocoelum *Skrjabinocta *Skrjabinodendrium *Skrjabinodera *Skrjabinodon *Skrjabinoeces *Skrjabinofilaria *Skrjabinolecithum *Skrjabinomermis *Skrjabinomerus *Skrjabinonchus *Skrjabinoparaksis *Skrjabinophora *Skrjabinophyetus *Skrjabinoplagiorchis *Skrjabinoporus *Skrjabinopsolus *Skrjabinoptera *Skrjabinorhynchus *Skrjabinosomum *Skrjabinostrongylus *Skrjabinotaenia *Skrjabinotaurus *Skrjabinotrema *Skrjabinovermis *Skrjabinozoum

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scriabine, Constantin 1878 births 1972 deaths Scientists from Saint Petersburg Zoologists from the Russian Empire Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Academicians of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences Academicians of the VASKhNIL Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery Recipients of the Order of Lenin Heroes of Socialist Labour Soviet parasitologists Soviet zoologists Foreign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts