Proceedings of the National Museum of Natural History, 2016, Nr 14, pages 136–146

Evdokia Reshetnyk (1903–1996) — an Outstanding Figure in the History of Academic Zoology and Ecology in Ukraine

doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/vnm.2016.14.136

author(s): Korobchenko, M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1063-482X,
National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Summary:

Evdokia Reshetnyk was a Ukrainian zoologist, ecologist, collector, biographer and patriot of Ukraine. A significant part of her research activities is related with the Zoological Museum and the Institute of Zoology, ASU. Biographical data on her higher and postgraduate education at the Kharkiv Department of the All-Ukrainian Institute of Zoology and Biology (Zoobin) are presented, as well as information on her work in Kyiv, in particular in the Kyiv zoo and in Zoobin. During her postgraduate studies she worked at the Steppe Institute in Askania-Nova in the group led by V. Stanchynskyi. In 1936, she became a researcher in Zoobin (later the Institute of Zoology, IZAN) and took part in a number of expeditions to different regions of Ukraine in order to study the biology of mole rats and ground squirrels. During her research activities she collected considerable rodent series, which are still being preserved. Reshetnyk was among those researchers, who remained employees of the institute and curators of the museum’s fonds even during World War II continuing expedition research. In the same time she worked at the Red Cross. After the war she stayed at the IZAN, but in 1951 she was repressed. After release she proceeded to study rodents, and later she begun to investigate the biography of scientists she worked with in different times of her life.

Keywords:

Evdokia Reshetnyk, personalities, zoology, ecology, Ukraine, repressions.

Corresponding author address:

M. Korobchenko; National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine; Bohdan Khmelnitsky St. 15, Kyiv, 01601 Ukraine; e-mail: aquamarine@ukr.net

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