Oleksandr Markevych

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )

	Олександр Прокопович Маркевич
Transl. :	Oleksandr Prokopovyč Markevyč
Transcr. :	Oleksandr Prokopowytsch Markewytsch
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Александр Прокофьевич Маркевич
Transl .:	Aleksandr Prokof'evič Markevič
Transcr .:	Alexander Prokofievich Markevich

Oleksandr Markevych

Oleksandr Prokopowytsch Markewytsch ( Ukrainian , born March 6 ^{. Jul} / 19th March 1905 ^greg. In Ploské , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 23. April 1999 in Kiev , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian- Soviet zoologist .

Life

Oleksandr Markewytsch was born as the fifth child of a large religious family in the village of Ploske in what is now the Ukrainian Tarashcha Rajon , where he was raised to work from childhood. To compensate for this, he read a lot, so that he could educate himself and study at the pedagogical college in Bila Zerkwa between 1921 and 1925 . He then worked as a teacher and from 1926, after successfully passing the exam, he studied at the biological faculty of the Higher Institute of Education (now Kiev University ). After successfully completing his studies in 1930, he went to the Faculty of Parasitology of the Institute of Ichthyology in Leningrad as a doctoral student and worked in the best laboratory in the country for parasitology under the direction of the zoologist Valentin Alexandrovich Dogel ( Валентин Александрович Догель ), 1882-1955. On November 16, 1931 he defended his dissertation and from 1931 he taught on "fish diseases" at the Leningrad fish and industry colleague. In 1933 he became an assistant professor at the Leningrad Institute of Chemical and Technological Food Industry and from 1934 he worked there as a professor of biology, so that in 1935, based on the entirety of his scientific work, he received a doctorate in biological sciences from the Scientific Council of the Leningrad State University received.

In the spring of 1935 Oleksandr Markewytsch returned to Kiev at the invitation of Professor Schmalhausen and became professor and head of the Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR . He held this position until 1960. During the "Great Patriotic War" he was evacuated to Ufa with the institute and after the war he was head of the Department of Parasitology and Invasive Diseases at the Kiev Veterinary Institute of the University of Kiev from 1945 to 1950 (today the Veterinary Faculty of the National Agricultural University ). In 1957 he became an academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

Markevytsch died at the age of 94 in Kiev and was buried there in the Baikowe cemetery .

Markevytsch's tombstone in the Baikowe Cemetery in Kiev

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Oleksandr Markewytsch wrote more than 700 scientific publications, including 25 books on the study of phenomena of parasitology and diseases of fish and invertebrates.

Honors

Oleksandr Markewytsch was a member of several scientific societies and received numerous awards, including:

1954 the Order of the Red Banner of Labor
1965 Honored Scientist of the USSR
1968 the badge of honor of the Soviet Union
1988 the State Prize for Science and Technology of the USSR

Web links

Commons : Oleksandr Prokopowytsch Markewytsch - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Entry on Oleksandr Markewytsch in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)
Entry on Alexander Prokofjewitsch Markewitsch in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Russian)

Individual evidence

↑ Biography Oleksandr Markewytsch ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Institute of Biology and Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; accessed on April 27, 2017 (Ukrainian) @1@ 2

↑ Biography of Oleksandr Markewytsch on the website of the II Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ; accessed on April 27, 2017 (Ukrainian)

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d biography of Oleksandr Markewytsch on the website of the National Library of Ukraine ; accessed on April 27, 2017 (Ukrainian)

personal data
SURNAME	Markewytsch, Oleksandr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Markewytsch, Oleksandr Prokopowytsch (full name); Маркевич, Олександр Прокопович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ukrainian-Soviet zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ploske , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	April 23, 1999
Place of death	Kiev , Ukraine

[biology-1] Biography Oleksandr Markewytsch ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Institute of Biology and Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; accessed on April 27, 2017 (Ukrainian) @1@ 2

[izan-2] Biography of Oleksandr Markewytsch on the website of the II Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ; accessed on April 27, 2017 (Ukrainian)

[Nationalbibliothek-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d biography of Oleksandr Markewytsch on the website of the National Library of Ukraine ; accessed on April 27, 2017 (Ukrainian)