Aleksandr Formozov

Aleksandr Formozov
Born (1899-02-13)February 13, 1899
Nizhny Novgorod
Died December 22, 1973(1973-12-22) (aged 74)
Moscow
Citizenship Russian Empire, USSR
Alma mater Moscow State University
Influences Grigorii Kozhevnikov

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Formozov (1899-1973) was a Russian biologist and environmentalist.

From 1945 Formozov centred his research on the ecology of the steppes and deserts found in the Soviet Union.[1]

His son Nikolay Aleksandrovich Formozov is also a prominent biologist.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Weiner, Douglas R. (2002). A little corner of freedom : Russian nature protection from Stalin to Gorbachev. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520232136.
  2. ↑ Smirin, Vladimir Moiseevich; Smirin, U︡riĭ Moiseevich (1999). Animals in Nature. Edinburgh: Russian Nature Press. p. 295.
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