Outstanding biologist Alexei Yablokov was a man-epoch. He is known as an active world-famous environmentalist, political and public figure, professor and doctor of science. 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 1933-03-10. His father, Vladimir Sergeevich, was a historian and geologist, and his mother, Tatyana Georgievna, was a paleontologist. Aleksey is the second child in the family, the older brother Clement was born in 1926 and later also became a geologist.
As a schoolboy, Yablokov attended a circle of young biologists at the Darwin Museum. After receiving secondary education, he entered the Faculty of Biology and Soil at Moscow State University. After graduating from the university in 1956, Alexei was assigned to work as a teacher in the Arkhangelsk region, but he did not go and got a job at the Academy of Sciences as a laboratory assistant.
Scientific activity
In 1959, Alexei Yablokov was already a junior researchemployee and candidate of biological sciences. Three years later he defended his doctoral thesis 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 Developmental Biology, where he took the position of head of the laboratory of postnatal ontogenesis.
In 1976, Alexei Yablokov became a professor, since 1984 he has been a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences. In 1997-2005 was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Developmental Biology. During his scientific activity, the biologist wrote about five hundred works in the field of ecology, nature conservation, radiobiology, of which 24 textbooks and monographs. The author's books have been translated in Germany, USA, India, Japan and other countries.
Contribution to the environment
Aleksey Vladimirovich Yablokov was actively engaged in biological and ecological scientific research. In 1969, together with N. Vorontsov and N. Timofeev-Resovsky, he created a textbook on the theory of evolution, which went through several editions. In the process of studying and analyzing the characteristics of the variability of organisms, Yablokov identified new areas in classical morphology: the phenetics of natural populations and population morphology.
In the last years of his life, Alexei Vladimirovich was especially concerned about topical environmental problems and developed the concept that radiation chemical pollution irreversibly affects humans and biological diversity.
Political activities
In addition to science, Yablokov was engaged inpolitics. In 1989 he was elected a people's deputy from the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1989-1991 biologist served as deputy chairman of the Ecology Committee in the Supreme Council.
Since August 1991, Alexei Yablokov was a state adviser on he alth 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 Council for Environmental Policy, and in February of the same year - the state adviser of the Russian Federation in the field of he alth and ecology. In 1993-1997 the scientist chaired the Commission of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on environmental safety.
In 2007 and 2011 Alexei Vladimirovich participated in the elections to the State Duma as a candidate from the Yabloko party.
Community 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, he has been a member of the Ecological Council under the Moscow Mayor.
In June 2005, the biologist headed the faction "Green Russia", acting as part of the party "Yabloko". The main tasks of the faction are to protect the environmental and social rights of citizens of the Russian Federation, the innovative development of Russia and the inclusion of environmental problems in the list of priorities in the foreign and domestic policy of the state.
Private life
Alexey Vladimirovich Yablokov met his first wife at the university. It was a girl named Elya Bakulina. Soon they got married and lived together for over forty years. But in 1987, the scientist's wife died fromcancer.
In 1988, Alexei Yablokov met Dilbar Nikolaevna Klado on his way, who, as a journalist, interviewed an ecologist on the consequences 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 suffered from prostate cancer, died on January 10, 2017 at the age of 83. Resting at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery of the capital.
