Konstantin Skryabin

Konstantin Ivanovich Skryabin (Russian: Константин Иванович Скрябин; 7 December [O.S. 25 November] 1878 – 17 October 1972) was a Soviet scientist in the field of helminthology, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1939),^[1] and academician of USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. He was a founder of the helminthology school, and an author of landmark books on helminths in Soviet Union.

Konstantin Skryabin
Born	7 December [O.S. 25 November] 1878 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	17 October 1972(1972-10-17) (aged 93) Moscow, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian Empire USSR
Alma mater	Dorpat (Tartu) Veterinary Institute
Awards	Hero of Socialist Labour
Scientific career
Fields	Biology, Helminthology

Life

Konstantin Skryabin was born in Saint Petersburg. In 1905 he graduated from Dorpat (Tartu) Veterinary Institute. From 1905 to 1911 Skryabin worked as a veterinary physician in Aulie-Ata and Shymkent. In 1912 to 1914 he was sent on assignment mission to Germany, Switzerland, and France. From 1915 to 1917, Skryabin worked as a researcher in the Central Veterinary Laboratory of Saint Petersburg. In 1917 he became a professor of the Parasitology Department of Don Veterinary Institute in Novocherkassk. He was a Head of the Department of the Moscow Veterinary Institute (1920-1925) and (1933-1941), and at the same time Head of Helminthology Division of the Central Tropical Institute (1921-1941).

Eponymous taxa

About 40 genera were named after Skryabin:

Skrjabinella Skrjabinodentus Skrjabinocercella Skrjabinoeces Skrjabinostrongylus Skrjabinobilharzia Skrjabinobronema Skrjabinocapillaria Skrjabinocara Skrjabinocerca

Skrjabinocercella Skrjabinocerina Skrjabinochona Skrjabinochora Skrjabinocladorchis Skrjabinoclava Skrjabinocoelum Skrjabinocta Skrjabinodendrium Skrjabinodera

Skrjabinodon Skrjabinoeces Skrjabinofilaria Skrjabinolecithum Skrjabinomermis Skrjabinomerus Skrjabinonchus Skrjabinoparaksis Skrjabinophora Skrjabinophyetus

Skrjabinoplagiorchis Skrjabinoporus Skrjabinopsolus Skrjabinoptera Skrjabinorhynchus Skrjabinosomum Skrjabinotaenia Skrjabinotaurus Skrjabinotrema Skrjabinovermis Skrjabinozoum

Awards and honors

• Honored Science Worker of the RSFSR (1927)
• Six Orders of Lenin (1936, 1949, 1953, 1953, 1958, 1968)
• Two Stalin Prizes, 1st class (1941, 1950)
• Three Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1945, 1945, 1951)
• Order of the Red Star (1946)
• Lenin Prize (1957)
• Hero of Socialist Labour (1958)
• Order of Georgi Dimitrov