281 / PAVLOVSKY 



In 1939 he became an Academician of the U.S.S.R. Academy of 

 Sciences, in 1944 a member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Medi- 

 cal Sciences, and in 1951 an honorary member of the Tadzhik 

 S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. The U.S.S.R. Geographic Society 

 elected him President in 1952. Pavlovsky has been made an 

 honorary member of many Russian and other scientific socie- 

 ties including: the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and 

 Hygiene, Societe Pathologie exotique, Societe France de Zoo- 

 logie, Parasitological Society of USA, the Iranian Academy 

 (Teheran), Leopoldina Academy, the Academy of Zoology. He 

 has received honorary doctorate degrees from the Sorbonne 

 University (Paris) and the University in Delhi (India). He is a 

 Deputy of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet, second through fourth 

 convocations. In 1935 he was an Honored Scientist of the 

 R.S. F.S.R. Pavlovsky received a Stalin Prize in 1941 and again 

 in 1950. The U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences awarded him the 

 gold medal of I. I. Mechnikov in 1949, and in 1954 the U.S.S.R. 

 Geographic Society awarded him a gold medal. 



As of 1961, Pavlovsky was Chairman of the Commission on 

 Icthyology of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. He is also 

 President of the AU-Union Entomological Society, Academy of 

 Sciences U.S.S.R. In 1962, Pavlovsky asked to be relieved of 

 the directorship of the Zoological Institute of the U.S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences and was appointed the Senior Scientific 

 Consultant of this Institute. 



Pavlovsky' s main work is in parasitology. He organized and 

 conducted many complex expeditions to Middle Asia, to Zakav- 

 kaz'ye, to the Crimea, the Far East and other regions of the 

 country in order to study endemic parasitic and communicable 

 diseases (tick fever, tick encephalitis, mosquito fever, leush- 

 maniosis). Pavlovsky, his students, and associates collected 

 voluminous materials on the fauna, biology and ecology of para- 

 sites and carriers of sickness. They studied natural reser- 

 voirs of pathogenic organisms and the routes of their circu- 

 lation in nature and in the organisms of humans and domestic 

 animals. He investigated natural breeding grounds for communi- 

 cable diseases of man and helped to organize prophylactic mea- 

 sures. He investigated intestinal protozoan and worm infesta- 

 tion, flying, bloodsucking insects (gnus) and protective measures 

 against these insects (protective nets of Pavlovsky), and eradi- 

 cation of bloodsuckers in their breeding ground and habitats. 

 Pavlovsky also studied poisonous animals and the properties 

 of their poison ("Poisonous Animals and their Meaning for 

 Man," 1923, and "Poisonous Animals and their Venoms," 1927). 



