Evgeny Pavlovsky

PAVLOVSKY, Evgeny Nikanorovich (born 1884), a well-known zoologist; graduated from the Military Medical Academy; since 1913 he has been a privat-docent, and since 1921 a professor of zoology, and later of general biology and parasitology at the Military Medical Academy in Leningrad. He heads the parasitological department of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences, serves as chairman of the Parasitological Society and the Malaria Commission of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, president (since 1931) of the Entomological Society, member of several foreign scientific societies, editor of the Parasitological Collection (Leningrad, published since 1930), co-editor of the Great Medical Encyclopedia and a number of periodicals. He has over 130 published works. He specialized in parasitology (mainly in arachno-entomology) and in the study of venomous animals; his early works are of a morphological and comparative-anatomical character; in recent years he has been studying vectors of invasion and infection agents, the effect of the bites of various venomous animals, and the influence of parasites on their hosts. Pavlovsky first organized special teaching of parasitology at the Military Medical Academy and a department for the control of livestock pests (parasitological faculty) at the Leningrad Institute of the All-Union Association for Pest Control in Agriculture and Forestry (OBV), where he holds the chair of parasitology and heads the aforementioned department. He organized a number of major parasitological expeditions to Transcaucasia, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, and the Crimea. A number of his works have been awarded prizes by various organizations. The principal works of Pavlovsky published as separate editions include: On the Structure of Poison Glands in Arthropods (dissertation, Proceedings of the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, vol. XLIII, iss. 2, 1912); Materials on the Comparative Anatomy and Developmental History of Scorpions (dissertation, Petrograd, 1917); Manual of Practical Human Parasitology (Leningrad, 1924); Gifttiere und ihre Giftigkeit (Jena, 1927; a major monograph covering the subject with exceptional completeness); Venomous Animals of the USSR (Moscow-Leningrad, 1931); Manual for the Practical Study of Zoology (Leningrad, 1932). Jointly with the dermatologist A. Stein, Pavlovsky published over 20 communications on the experimental study of the action of animal venoms on human skin; a list of these works is given in the article "Experimental Research on the Action of the Bite of the Black Cockroach on Human Skin" (Parasitological Collection, iss. 2, Leningrad, 1931). Under the editorship of Pavlovsky and with his participation as an author, the collections Animal Parasites and Certain Parasitic Diseases of Man in Tajikistan (Leningrad, 1929) and The Murghab Parasitological Expedition of 1930 of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the People's Commissariat of Health of Turkmenistan (Leningrad, 1932) were published. In addition, Pavlovsky authored a large number of scientific, organizational, and popular works scattered across various periodicals and issued as separate brochures.