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Vladimir Beklemishev,
Yuri Filipchenko 18 October 1930, Irkutsk, Russia Otto Bütschli, Konstantin Mereschkowski Valentin Dogiel, Yuri Filipchenko, Vladimir Nikolayevich Beklemishev Valentin Dogiel, Otto Bütschli, Yuri Filipchenko, Vladimir Nikolayevich Beklemishev, Konstantin Mereschkowski |
Vladimir Timofeyevich Shevyakov, in Russian Владимир Тимофеевич Шевяков (29 October 1859, St. Petersburg – 18 October 1930, Irkutsk) was a Russian biologist who worked on Protozoa.
Shevyakov studied under Konstantin Mereschkowski in St. Petersburg and Otto Bütschli at the University of Heidelberg. He was married to Lydia Kowalevsky, the youngest daughter of Alexander Kovalevsky. He was a professor at St. Petersburg University until 1911 when he left science and became a vice-minister in the government of Tzar Nicholas.During the revolution he and his family moved first to Perm in Ural and in 1920 he became professor in Irkutsk.
He is mainly known for his work on Radiolaria, Ciliata and Acantharea. He described many taxa. Most of his publications are under the German spelling of his name which is Schewiakoff.
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