Alexei Alexeyevich Ukhtomsky was a Russian and Soviet physiologist.
15 Facts About Alexei Ukhtomsky
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Alexey Ukhtomsky was born 13 June 1875 on the family estate of the princes Ukhtomsky in the hamlet of Vosloma, near Arefino in the Rybinsk district in the province of Yaroslavl.
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Alexei Ukhtomsky's parents were the retired officer Alexey Ukhtomskii, and his wife Antonina Fyodorovna, nee Anfimova.
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Dolbnya Alexei Ukhtomsky entered the philological department of the Moscow Theological Academy.
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Alexei Ukhtomsky did not live in a dorm, but in an apartment, that was kept comfortable by Nadezhda Bobrovskaya, who lived with him as an assistant and housekeeper until May 1941.
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Alexei Ukhtomsky considered the years spent in the academy as most happy and productive for his spiritual development.
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Alexei Ukhtomsky joined the Russian Orthodox sect of the Old Believers.
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Alexei Ukhtomsky wanted to become a physiologist, but since graduates of the theological academies and seminaries were not entitled to enter the university departments of natural sciences, he joined the Department of Oriental Studies instead.
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From 1899 Alexei Ukhtomsky was a guest student at the Oriental Department of St Petersburg University, where he mastered the Hebrew language.
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In December 1917, after participating in the Local Council of the Orthodox Church, Alexei Ukhtomsky left for Rybinsk, where he lived in his parental home almost all of 1918.
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Alexei Ukhtomsky spent the time reading religious literature and working on the land around the house.
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The documents from the Petrograd Soviet saved him from immediate execution, and Alexei Ukhtomsky was sent to the Yaroslavl political detention center, and then to Moscow in the special branch of the Cheka in the Lubyanka.
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Alexei Ukhtomsky was head of the biology department at Leningrad University, from 1931 until 1938 he was president of the Leningrad Society of Naturalists.
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Alexei Ukhtomsky had command of seven languages, was versed in theology, philosophy, political economy, architecture, was a painter of icons, and played the violin.
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In 1941 Alexei Ukhtomsky remained in besieged Leningrad, where he participated in the organization of scientific work in support of its defense, and directed research on traumatic shock that was relevant for warfare.