Zoologist and naturalist Georgy Gassovsky (to the 130th Anniversary)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the biography of Professor Georgy Nikolaevich Gassovsky (May 19, 1893 – September 22, 1960), a scientist, teacher and organizer of science. After graduating from Petrograd University in 1916, Gassovsky worked at the university as an assistant, but then a significant period of his life (from 1920 to 1934) was associated with the Far East, where he held various positions, was active in scientific and pedagogical activities, was leader and participant of a number of scientific expeditions. G.N. Gassovsky was one of the key figures in the community of scientists in the Far East. Later he worked in Petrozavodsk (1934–1938), then in Melitopol (1938–1941). During the Great Patriotic War (1941–1944) he was evacuated to Leninabad (Khujand, Tajikistan), where he did not stop his scientific and pedagogical activities. In subsequent years, G.N. Gassovsky served as a head of the department of zoology: from 1944 to 1949 and from 1951 to 1958 – at the Nizhyn State Pedagogical Institute, from 1949 to 1951 – at the Kishinev State University, from 1958 to 1960 – at the Cherkasy Pedagogical Institute. Authorship G.N. Gassovsky owns scientific works on protistology, zoology, hunting and local history. He was awarded the medal “For Valorous Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945” and an honorary badge “Excellence in public education of the Ukrainian SSR”.