Emeritus Professor Rustem Devletovich Zhantiev Dn (russian: Рустем Девлетович Жантиев; born 11 October 1937,

Yalta Yalta (: Я́лта) is a resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea. It serves as the administrative center of Yalta Municipality, one of the regions within Crimea. Yalta, along with the rest of Cri ...

) is a Russian scientist, specialising in the fields of the systematics, ecology and physiology of insect acoustic communication, orientation, and neurophysiology.

Biography

In 1960 he graduated from Department of Entomology in the Biological Faculty of

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

. From 1960 to 1963 he worked in the Post-graduate Department of Entomology and from 1963 to the present he has worked at Moscow State University. In 1966 he wrote his thesis ''The taxonomic and ecological analysis of Sem.

Dermestidae Dermestidae are a family of Coleoptera that are commonly referred to as skin beetles. Other common names include larder beetle, hide or leather beetles, carpet beetles, and khapra beetles. There are over 1,100 species described. Dermestids have ...

(Coleoptera)'' and in 1980 his PhD on insect bioacoustics. In 1982 he became a professor, giving lectures and seminars on insect physiology,

Coleoptera Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

, the Principles of Zoological Systematics and the modern problems and methods of entomology. He became a laureate of the

USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, t ...

in 1987, the same year as he was given the

Medal "Veteran of Labour" The Medal "Veteran of Labour" (russian: медаль «Ветеран труда») was a civilian labour award of the Soviet Union established on January 18, 1974 by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to honour workers f ...

. Since 1990 he has been the head of the Department of Entomology in the Faculty of Biology at Moscow State University, where he became an Emeritus Professor in 1998. In 1997 he was given the

Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" The Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" (russian: Медаль «В память 850-летия Москвы») is a commemorative medal of the Russian Federation created to denote the 850th anniversary of the city of Mos ...

and in 2002 he was made an Honoured Worker of the Higher Schools of the Russian Federation.

Awards

(1987)Наши современники - Р.Д. Жантиев.
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(1987) *

(1997)

Major works

He has written over 100 works, including:

Books

* Жуки-кожееды (семейство Dermestidae) фауны СССР. Kozheedy Beetles (family Dermestidae) fauna of the USSR. Издательство Московского университета, 1976. Moscow University Publishing House, 1976. * Биоакустика насекомых. Bioacoustics insects. Издательство Московского университета, 1981. Moscow University Publishing House, 1981. * 2005. Кафедра энтомологии Московского государственного университета. М.: Т-во научных изданий КМК. Zhantiev RD, Gull S., Ryazanov, GI, Farafonova GV Ahaev DN, Benediktov AA, 2005 . Department of Entomology, Moscow State University. MM: Association of KMK Scientific Press. 137 с. 137.

Articles

* 2001. Личинки жуков-кожеедов рода Dermestes (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) России и сопредельных стран. Zhantiev RD, 2001. The larvae of beetles, carpet beetle genus Dermestes (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) of Russia and neighboring countries. Подрод Montandonia // Зоол. Subgenus Montandonia / / Zool. журн. Journ. Т. 80. T. 80. № 3. № 3. С. 371-375. S. 371-375. * 2001. Жуки-кожееды рода Orphilus Er. Zhantiev RD, 2001. Beetles kozheedy kind Orphilus Er. (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) фауны Палеарктик и // Энтомол. (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) and Palaearctic / / Entomol. обоз. carts. Т. 80. T. 80. № 3. № 3. С. 611-619. S. 611-619. * 2002. Новые и малоизученные кожееды (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) из Закавказья // Зоол. Zhantiev RD, 2002. New and lesser known kozheedy (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) from the Caucasus, Zool. журн. Journ. Т. 81. T. 81. № 3. № 3. С. 369-372. S. 369-372. * 2007. Спонтанная активность интернейронов кузнечиков (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidue) при разной температуре // Проблемы и перспективы общей энтомологии. Zhantiev RD, Chukanov VS Korsunovskaya OS, 2007. Spontaneous activity of interneurons of grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidue) at different temperatures: Problems and prospects of general entomology. Тезисы докладов XIII съезда РЭО, Краснодар, 9-15 сентября 2007 г. С. 112-113. Abstracts XIII Congress of the RER, Krasnodar, 9–15 September 2007 S. 112-113. * 2007. Реакции на звук слуховых рецепторов кузнечиков (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) при разной температуре // Проблемы и перспективы общей энтомологии. Korsunovskaya OS, Zhantiev RD, 2007. Reactions to the sound of auditory receptors of grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) at different temperatures: Problems and prospects of general entomology. Тезисы докладов XIII съезда РЭО, Краснодар, 9-15 сентября 2007 г. С. 166. Abstracts XIII Congress of the RER, Krasnodar, 9–15 September 2007 S. 166.

References

External links

Zoological Institute of the Russian Institute of Sciences - biography
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