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Vladimir Soldatov

Vladimir Konstantinovich Soldatov (, 15 July 1875 – 31 January 1941) was a Russian and Soviet ichthyologist, zoologist, Doctor of Biological Sciences, and professor in the Department of Ichthyology of the Moscow Technical Institute for the Fishery Industry.

Biography

Soldatov was born in the town of of the Irkutsk Governorate, in a family of K. N. and E. D. Soldatov. From the age of one, he spent his childhood in the city of Irkutsk. From 1886 to 1896 he studied at the Irkutsk classical gymnasium. After graduating, Soldatov entered the Natural Science Department of the at St. Petersburg University in 1896. Soldatov participated in the Murmansk scientific and field expedition (1899–1906) organized by N. M. Knipovich. He studied the biology and fishing of salmon on the of Russian fishermen and Sámi people in the Kola Bay and rivers flowing into the Barents Sea. He graduated from the university in 1906. In 1907, he was sent by the Department of Agriculture to the Far East to study fish resources. He managed to organize a Far Eastern expedition, which from 1907 to 1913 conducted year-round research on the biology of the main commercial fish (primarily salmon and sturgeon) in the Amur River basin. The results of these scientific works were published in the monographs “Research on Amur salmon biology” (1912) and “Research on the Amur sturgeon” (1915), which experts rightly classify as classic works of scientific literature. In 1909, at the initiative of Soldatov, the first fish breeding plant for artificial salmon farming was built on Cape Bolshoi Chil, in the Amur basin and throughout the Far East. During his stay in the Far East, Soldatov collected vast information on hydrology, hydrobiology, and fish in the western part of the Sea of Okhotsk, Sakhalin Gulf, Strait of Tartary and Peter the Great Gulf. Soldatov described many new species and genera of fish in the Far East. Soldatov was a member of the Northern Scientific and Expedition Expedition (1920–1925). From 1919 to 1941 he was a professor at the Moscow Technical Institute of Fisheries and Agriculture. Soldatov was the author of a number of textbooks on ichthyology, including “Fish and Fisheries” (1928), “Commercial Ichthyology” (1934–1938), “General Ichthyology” (1934) and “Fish of the Fishing Regions of the USSR” (1938). His textbook “Commercial Ichthyology” served as a reference for many generations of ichthyology students.

He died on January 31, 1941, and was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery (2nd plot, 33rd row). Next to him are buried the wife of a doctor, Elena Petrovna Soldatova (1882–1948) and his brother, Leonid Konstantinovich Soldatov (1888–1963).

Tribute

Many species of fish were named after Soldatov, including those that live in the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk, including:

Works

In Russian

In English

  • On the new genus Cyclopteropsis (Pisces Cyclopteridae) from the Okhotsk sea / V. Soldatov and A. Popov. - [Ленинград] : [б. и.], 1929. - [4] с. вкл. ил.; 26 см
  • On a new genus and species of the family Zoarcidae (Pisces) from the Okhotsk sea / By V. Soldatov and . - [Ленинград] : [б. и.], [1929]. - [4] с. вкл. ил.; 23 см.

Taxon described by him

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