The outstanding biologist Alexei Yablokov was a man of the era. He is known as an active ecologist with a worldwide reputation, political and public figure, professor and doctor of sciences. In 2005, the scientist created the Green Russia faction as part of the Yabloko party and led it until the last days of his life.
Biography
Alexey Vladimirovich Yablokov was born in Moscow on 10/03/1933. His father, Vladimir Sergeyevich, was a historian and geologist, and his mother, Tatyana Georgievna, was a paleontologist. Alexei is the second child in the family, the elder brother Clement was born in 1926 and later also became a geologist.
As a schoolboy, Yablokov attended a circle of young biologists in the Darwin Museum. After receiving secondary education, he entered the Faculty of Biology and Soil at Moscow State University. At the end of the university in 1956, Alexei was assigned to work as a teacher in the Arkhangelsk region by distribution, but he did not go and got a job as a laboratory assistant at the Academy of Sciences.
Scientific activity
In 1959, Alexei Yablokov was already a junior research fellow and candidate of biological sciences. Three years later he defended his doctorate and became the youngest doctor of science in the USSR at that time. Since 1966 he worked as a senior researcher at the Institute of Animal Morphology of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Then he moved to the Institute of Development Biology, where he took the post of head of the laboratory of postnatal ontogenesis.
In 1976, Alexei Yablokov became a professor, since 1984 he was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences. In 1997-2005 He was a senior fellow at the Institute of Development Biology. During his scientific career, the biologist wrote about five hundred works in the field of ecology, nature conservation, radiobiology, of which 24 are textbooks and monographs. The author’s books have been translated in Germany, USA, India, Japan and other countries.
Environmental contribution
Alexey Vladimirovich Yablokov was actively engaged in biological and environmental research. In 1969, together with N. Vorontsov and N. Timofeev-Resovsky, he created a textbook on the theory of evolution, which has survived several editions. In the process of studying and analyzing the characteristics of the variability of organisms, Yablokov identified new directions in classical morphology: the phenetics of natural populations and population morphology.
In the last years of his life, Aleksei Vladimirovich was particularly concerned about pressing environmental problems and developed the concept that radiation-induced chemical pollution irreversibly affects humans and biological diversity.
Political activity
In addition to science, Yablokov was involved in politics. In 1989, he was elected People's Deputy from the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1989-1991 the biologist served as deputy chairman of the Committee on Ecology in the Supreme Council.
Since August 1991, Alexei Yablokov was a state adviser on health and ecology, as well as a member of the State Council of the President of the RSFSR. In January 1992, he became chairman of the Environmental Policy Council, and in February of the same year, he became the state adviser to the Russian Federation in the field of health and ecology. In 1993-1997 The scientist chaired the Security Council Commission on environmental safety.
In 2007 and 2011 Alexey Vladimirovich participated in the elections to the State Duma as a candidate from the Yabloko party.
Social work
Yablokov is the founder of Greenpeace USSR and the Society for the Protection of Animals in Moscow. He was vice president of the IUCN Council. Since April 1998, Mr .. included in the Ecological Council under the Moscow Mayor.
In June 2005, the biologist led the Green Russia faction, which was part of the Yabloko party. The main objectives of the faction are to protect the environmental and social rights of citizens of the Russian Federation, the innovative development of Russia and the conclusion of environmental problems in the list of priorities in the state’s foreign and domestic policy.
Personal life
Alexey Vladimirovich Yablokov met his first wife at the university. It was a girl named El Bakulin. Soon they got married and lived together for over forty years. But in 1987, the scientist’s wife died of cancer.
In 1988, Alexei Yablokov met on his way Dilbar Nikolaevna Klado, who, as a journalist, interviewed an ecologist on the effects of pesticides. A year later, their wedding took place.
Alexey Vladimirovich lived with Dilbar Nikolaevna until the end of his days. In the last years of his life, the biologist had prostate cancer, died on 01/10/2017 at the age of 83. It rests in the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery of the capital.