Vladimir Soldatov

Vladimir Konstantinovich Soldatov (Russian: Владимир Константинович Солдатов, 15 July 1875 – 31 January 1941) was a Russian and Soviet ichthyologist, zoologist, Doctor of Biological Sciences, professor of the Department of Ichthyology of the Moscow Technical Institute for the Fishery Industry.[1][2]

Vladimir Konstantinovich Soldatov
Born(1875-07-15)15 July 1875
Verkholensk
Died31 January 1941(1941-01-31) (aged 65)
Moscow
NationalityRussian
Alma materSt. Petersburg University
Known forMarine zoology
Hydrobiology
Fisheries science

Biography

The Soldatov was born in the town of Verkholensk of the Irkutsk Governorate, in a family of folk teachers K. N. and E. D. Soldatovs. At the age of one, he was transported to Irkutsk. In this city his childhood and youth passed. From 1886 to 1896 he studied at the Irkutsk classical gymnasium. After graduating from classical gymnasium, Soldatov left for the capital and entered the Natural Science Department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at St. Petersburg University in 1896.[3] 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 tonyas of Russian fishermen and Sámi people in the Kola Bay and rivers flowing into the Barents Sea. He graduated from the university in 1906.[2] 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 are published in the monographs “Research on the 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[4] and in the Amur basin and throughout the Far East. During his stay in the Far East, Soldatov collected enormous material 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 of the Far East.[5] Soldatov is a member of the Northern Scientific and Expedition Expedition (1920–1925). In 1919-1941 he was a professor at the Moscow Technical Institute of the Fisheries and Agriculture.[2] Soldatov is 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).[5] His textbook “Commercial Ichthyology” served as a reference book for many generations of ichthyological students.[2]

He died on January 31, 1941, was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery (2rd plot, 33rd row). Next to him, the wife of a doctor, Soldatova Elena Petrovna (1882-1948) and his brother, Soldatov Leonid Konstantinovich (1888-1963), are buried.[6]

Many species of fish were named after Soldatov, including those that live in the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk, including: Silurus soldatovi, Soldatov's gudgeon, Soldatov's thicklip gudgeon, Lycodes soldatovi, Eumicrotremus soldatovi, Bothrocara soldatovi, Aplidium soldatovi, Hydatophylax soldatovi, Xysticus soldatovi[5]

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 G. Lindberg. - [Ленинград] : [б. и.], [1929]. - [4] с. вкл. ил.; 23 см.

References
  1. Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Солдатов Владимир Константинович
  2. Сорокажердьев В. В. Исследователи Кольского п-ова. — Мурманск, 1979
  3. Вопросы ихтиологии, Том 16. Изд-во "Наука.", 1976 / С. 546-548
  4. Russian: мыс Большой Чхиль, Coordinates: 53 ° 1'36 "N 141 ° 1'48" E
  5. А. М. Токранов. Названы их именами. Петропавловск-Камчатский : Камчатпресс, 2008. – 260 с., ил. 4 л. / С. 200-201
  6. Солдатов Владимир Константинович (1875–1941)
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