Grigorii Kozhevnikov

Grigorii Aleksandrovich Kozhevnikov
Kozhevnikov in about 1910
Born1866
Died1933
NationalityRussian
CitizenshipRussian Empire, Soviet Union
Scientific career
FieldsEntomology
InstitutionsMoscow State University

Grigorii Aleksandrovich Kozhevnikov (September 15 (27), 1866 – January 29, 1933) was a Russian and Soviet entomologist.

In 1904 Kozhevnikov was appointed professor at Moscow University and became director of their zoological museum. He was particularly involved in the study of bees and initiated the study of the Anopheles genus of mosquito.[1]

Kozhevnikov was one of the foremost proponents of zapovedniki, a series of inviolable nature reserves which would serve as a control group in relationship to areas of human inhabitation which would allow scientists to test the impact of human activity on the environment.[2]

  1. ^ "Grigorii Aleksandrovich Kozhevnikov". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  2. ^ Weiner, Douglas R. (2002). A little corner of freedom : Russian nature protection from Stalin to Gorbachev. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. p. 28. ISBN 9780520232136.