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Alexander Bukirev
BornAlexander Ilyich Bukirev
(1903-09-12)12 September 1903
Verkhmochki, Kungursky Uyezd, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire
Died26 August 1964(1964-08-26) (aged 60)
Perm, Soviet Union
Alma materPerm University
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsIchthyology
InstitutionsPerm University

Alexander Ilyich Bukirev (12 September 1903 – 26 August 1964) was a Soviet ichthyologist, professor, rector (from 1939 to 1941 and from 1946 to 1951), the Dean of the Faculty of Biology (from 1955 to 1956) of Perm State University. He founded a scientific direction in ichthyology that studied fish resources, fish variability, and patterns of formation of the fish fauna of the Kama reservoir.

Biography

Bukirev was born in Verkhmochki, a village located in, Perm Governorate, Kungursky Uyezd, in the then-Russian Empire. He was born to a peasant family. In 1922, he joined the Workers’ Faculty of Perm University and graduated in 1925. Around that time, he was drafted to the Red Army. In 1927, he rejoined Perm University, but in 1929, the Perm City Committee decided to send him to work as the executive secretary of the Perm City Council. He graduated from the Biology Department of the Perm Pedagogical Institute in 1931. He worked as a researcher and secretary at the Biological Research Institute of Perm University and as an assistant at the Department of Vertebrate Zoology.

Bukirev and his colleagues organized and successfully carried out two ichthyological expeditions along the Upper and Middle Kama, the results of which were published in a monograph titled "Fish and Fishing of the upper riverheads of the Kama River" in 1934.

In 1939, he participated in battles of Khalkhin Gol and was wounded. In June 1940, he was appointed rector of Perm University, and from this post he joined the army as a volunteer. Between 1941 and 1945, he served in the Second World War as the head of an artillery battalion. During that time, he developed a method of fighting German Tiger II tank. The results of his study were published in the brochure titled "The German Tiger heavy Tank and the fight against it."

Tiger II, Königstiger

From 1946 to 1951, he served as a rector at Perm University. In 1951, he became an associate professor at the Department of Vertebrate Zoology. From 1955 to 1956, he served as dean of the Faculty of Biology. In 1962, he was awarded the academic title of Professor.

He was one of the founders of the direction in ichthyology at Perm University that focused on the study of fish resources and fish variability. He discovered previously unknown brook trout in the Middle Kama. Moreover, he published 20 scientific papers. Bukirev systematized the fish of the river Upper Kama, several other lakes, and the river Irtysh.

Public Activity

Recognition

A street in Perm is named after Alexander Bukirev.

Awards

References

  1. Matlin A. The manual of Permian helped to destroy the German "Royal Tigers" // Komsomolskaya Pravda. 2015.12.25.
  2. Bukireva Street at Google Maps.

External links

  1. 111 years since the birth of Alexander Ilyich Bukirev // Perm University.
  2. Alenchikova N. About A.I. Bukirev (graduate of 1924) // Perm working faculty. Perm, 1975. Pp. 245–248.
  3. Alenchikova N. Rector of PSU A.I. Bukirev - man, scientist, warrior // Perm City Archive.
  4. Ivanov V. Scientist and Warrior // До последнего дыхания. Perm, 1966. Pp. 22–29.
  5. Kostitsyn V. Alexander Bukirev // Kostitsyn V. I. Rectors of Perm University. 1916–2006. Perm, 2006. 352 p. Pp. 91–103.
  6. Matlin A. The manual of Permian helped to destroy the German "Royal Tigers" // Komsomolskaya Pravda. 2015.12.25.
  7. Solovyov N. S. Scientist and warrior // Calendar-reference book of the Perm region. Perm, 1968, No. 10.
  8. Solovyov N. S., Barsukov V. V. In memory of Alexander Ilyich Bukirev (1903–1964) // Issues of ichthyology. М.: Nauka, 1965. V.5, Issue I (34). Pp. 198–202.
  9. Stabrovsky A. Scientist, warrior, teacher // Evening Perm. 1981. No. 233.
  10. "Фонд №р-1054. Alexander Bukirev". State Archive of the Perm Krai. Archived from the original on 2008-01-17. Retrieved 2013-01-02.
Preceded byMaria Prokhorova Rector of Perm University
1940–1941 		Succeeded byRoman Mertslin
Preceded byRoman Mertslin Rector of Perm University
1945–19511 		Succeeded byVasily Tiunov
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