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Vladimir Timofeyevich Shevyakov | |
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| Born | 29 October 1859 |
| Died | 18 October 1930 (aged 70) |
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| Fields | zoology, protistology |
| Doctoral advisor | Otto Bütschli, Konstantin Mereschkowski |
| Doctoral students | Valentin Dogiel, Vladimir Beklemishev, Yuri Filipchenko |
Vladimir Timofeyevich Shevyakov (Russian: Владимир Тимофеевич Шевяков; 29 October 1859, St. Petersburg – 18 October 1930, Irkutsk) publishing under the German spelling of his name as W. Shewiakoff, was a Russian biologist who worked on Protozoa, and a professor.
Shevyakov studied under Konstantin Mereschkowski in St. Petersburg and Otto Bütschli at the University of Heidelberg. He was married to Lydia Kovalevskaya, the youngest daughter of Alexander Kovalevsky. Shevyakov, together with Konstantin Arsenyev, was editor-in-chief of additional volumes of the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. He was a professor at St. Petersburg University until 1911 when he left science and became a vice-minister in the government of Tsar 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.