Konstantin Skryabin

Russian and Soviet zoologist

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Konstantin Skryabin

Born| 7 December [O.S. 25 November] 1878

Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire

Died| 17 October 1972(1972-10-17) (aged 93)

Moscow, Soviet Union

Nationality| Russian Empire
USSR
Alma mater| Dorpat (Tartu) Veterinary Institute
Awards| Hero of Socialist Labour
Scientific career
Fields| Biology, Helminthology

Konstantin Ivanovich Skryabin (Russian: Константин Иванович Скрябин; 7 December [O.S. 25 November] 1878 – 17 October 1972) was a Soviet scientist in the field of helminthology, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1939),[1] and academician of USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. He was a founder of the helminthology school, and an author of landmark books on helminths in Soviet Union.

## Life

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Konstantin Skryabin was born in Saint Petersburg. In 1905 he graduated from Dorpat (Tartu) Veterinary Institute. From 1905 to 1911 Skryabin worked as a veterinary physician in Aulie-Ata and Shymkent. In 1912 to 1914 he was sent on assignment mission to Germany, Switzerland, and France. 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. 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

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About 40 genera 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
* Skrjabinotaenia
* Skrjabinotaurus
* Skrjabinotrema
* Skrjabinovermis
* Skrjabinozoum

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## Awards and honors

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* Honored Science Worker of the RSFSR (1927)
* Six Orders of Lenin (1936, 1949, 1953, 1953, 1958, 1968)
* Two Stalin Prizes, 1st class (1941, 1950)
* Three Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1945, 1945, 1951)
* Order of the Red Star (1946)
* Lenin Prize (1957)
* Hero of Socialist Labour (1958)
* Order of Georgi Dimitrov

## References

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1. ^ Russian Academy of Sciences (in Russian)

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