✍ Scribed by Georgy M. Belyaev; Simeon A. Mileikovsky
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LEV AL]~XA:ND~OVITCH ZE~:K]~VITCH, o n e of the worldwide recognized giants of the Marine Biological Sciences of the twentieth century, died at the age of 8i --after a long, painful illness.
The undisputed leader of Soviet Oceanology, creator of the Soviet School of Marine Biology, outstanding organizer of soviet and international oceanographic researches, scientist of world fame, he was a marine biologist, systematic zoologist, morphologist, evolutionist, hydrobiologist, oceanologist, palacobiologist, historian of science, author of i0 bool~s and more than 300 articles in scientific and popu]ar science periodicals (about i50 of his publications are listed below). L. A. ZENK]~YITCK w a s a l s o a talented teacher. He taught for 55 years in the Chair of Invertebrate Zoology of Moscow State University, being from 1930 to 1970 its chairman. He was the originator of many fruitful ideas in science, developed further under his guidance by working groups of his pupils and associates. He was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and of the Academies and Scientific Societies of several foreign countries, laureate of many of the highest soviet and international scientific awards. In short, L. A. ZENK]~WTCg was an outstanding man and scientist, who devoted all his life to science as a pioneer. His accomplishments have written his name in big letters in the history of Marine Biology and Invertebrate Zoology.
L. A. ZE~KEVI~CH came into contact with the sea in i914, as a student of I.I. MESYATZEV (Chair of Invertebrate Zoology of Moscow University). Later, MESYATZEV became his closest friend and colleague.
As a student, L. A. ZE~XEVITCH spent a summer on the Murman coast, Barents Sea, studying the metancphridial systems in Polyehaeta and Sipunculoidca 40 l~Iarine ]
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