Vladimir Sokolov (scientist)

Vladimir Sokolov
Born
Vladimir Evgenievich Sokolov

(1928-02-01)1 February 1928
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
(now Russia)
Died19 April 1998(1998-04-19) (aged 70)
EducationDoctor of Science (1964)

Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor
Alma materMoscow State University (1950)
RelativesEvgeny Lebedev (grandson)
Scientific career
FieldsBiology
InstitutionsMoscow State University

Vladimir Sokolov (1 February 1928 – 19 April 1998) was a Russian scientist in the field of zoology and ecology. He was a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Science and the Brundtland Commission. He was one of the pioneers of the Russian environmentalism movement and one of the early global sustainability advocates.[1]

Sokolov was professor and head of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology at the Faculty of Biology at Moscow State University; director of the Institute of Evolutionary Animal Morphology and Ecology at the Russian Academy of Sciences; and deputy chairman of Chemical, Technological and Biological Sciences at the USSR Academy of Sciences.[2]

He is the grandfather of Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the London Evening Standard and The Independent (with and after his father, Alexander Lebedev, an ex-KGB officer).

  1. ^ "СОКОЛОВ Владимир Евгеньевич" (PDF). Cnshb.ru. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  2. ^ "Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future" (PDF). Un-documents.net. Retrieved 2017-03-17.