Sergei Alexejewitsch Sernow

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Sergei Alexejewitsch Sernow (Institute of Marine Biology, Odessa )

Sergei Alexeyevich Sernow ( Russian Сергей Алексеевич Зернов ; born May 29 . Jul / 10. June  1871 greg. In Moscow ; † 22. February 1945 in Leningrad ) was a Russian zoologist , hydro biologist and university professor .

Life

Sernow came from a merchant family. He attended the 4th Moscow boys' grammar school and studied at the physics and mathematics faculty of Moscow University (MGU) with graduation in 1895. He then became an extraordinary assistant in the zoological museum of the MGU and headed the first Russian hydrobiological freshwater station on Glubokoje , founded by Nikolai Yuryevich Sograf in 1891 Lake in the west of Moscow between Rusa and Zvenigorod .

In 1897 Sernov was arrested for his revolutionary activities in the Moscow Workers' Union and exiled from Moscow to Malmysh . After the exile was over, he was not allowed to return to Moscow, so he settled in Kazan . There he participated under the direction of Alexei Alexandrowitsch Ostroumows in the construction of the zoological museum. In 1899 he and his family moved to Simferopol at the invitation of the Tauride Zemstvo governorate and became custodian of the new natural history museum. In May 1900 he took part in the expedition to the Sea of ​​Azov , whereupon he published his first scientific paper on the plankton of the Sea of ​​Azov.

Sevastopol Biological Station (1911)

In March 1902, Sernow became the senior biologist and head of the Sevastopol Biological Station , which was founded in 1871 and later became the Sevastopol Marine Institute . He published further work on the plankton. In 1908 he discovered in the northwestern Black Sea west of the Crimea a huge accumulation of Phyllophora - red algae on an area of ​​more than 10,000 km ², which was then called the Sernow Phyllophora Field . This enabled the industrial production of iodine and agar . Over the course of 12 years he researched the hydrobiological conditions in the Black Sea and collected materials for his great work on the biocenoses of the Black Sea, which became a cornerstone of the fledgling hydrobiology and appeared in 1913. With this work, the MGU graduated in 1914 as a master of zoology .

In 1914, Sernov founded the first chair in hydrobiology at the Moscow Institute of Agriculture in the Faculty of Fisheries Management. After the October Revolution in 1917 he became the first dean of RabFak at the Moscow Institute of Agriculture. In 1924 he founded a chair for hydrobiology at the MGU, which he now headed. In 1931 he was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR, since 1991 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)). In the same year he became director of the Sevastopol Biological Station. In 1935 he founded and then headed the new Biological Station Murmansk of the AN-SSSR to replace the old one that had been destroyed. He was also director of the AN-SSSR Zoological Institute in Leningrad from 1931 to 1942. He was involved in the organization of the Central Fisheries Administration and the Floating Marine Institute in Murmansk. He was the representative of the USSR at the first Limnology Congress in Kiel in 1922 , the third in Leningrad in 1925 and the fourth in Italy in 1927, and a member of the Presidium of the International Society of Limnology .

Sernow was buried on the literary bridges in the Volkovo cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Большая российская энциклопедия: ЗЕРНО́В Сергей Алексеевич (accessed May 30, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c d e MGU: Зернов Сергей Алексеевич (accessed May 30, 2019).
  3. ↑ Четвертая московская мужская гимназия (accessed May 29, 2019).
  4. ↑ Голоцван Е. В .: Хранитель музея . In: Природа . No. 4 , 1999.
  5. ↑ RAN: Зернов Сергей Алексеевич (accessed May 29, 2019).
  6. ↑ Могила С. А. Зернова на Литераторских мостках Волковского кладбища (accessed May 30, 2019).
  7. ↑ Комаров В.Л .: Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР о награждении академика Зернова С. А. орденом Ленина . In: Вестник АН СССР . No. 3 , 1945, p. 4 ( ras.ru [accessed May 30, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Sernow, Sergei Alexejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Зернов, Сергей Алексеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian zoologist, hydrobiologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1945
Place of death Leningrad