357 SKRYABIN 



Medical Sciences. In 1943 to 1952 he was Chairman of the Pre- 

 sidium of the Kirghiz Branch of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sci- 

 ences. A member since 1935 of the Lenin All- Union Agricultur- 

 al Academy, he was elected President in 1956. Skryabin is well 

 known for his public activities also. He has been Deputy of the 

 U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet, second and third convocations. In 

 1922 he found and chaired the Commission of the Study of Hel- 

 mintho Fauna of the U.S.S.R. and in 1940 reorganized it into the 

 All- Union Society of Helminthologists of the U.S.S.R. Academy 

 of Sciences of which he is currently President. He participates 

 in domestic and international zoological and veterinary con- 

 gresses and is a member and honorary member of several 

 foreign scientific research organizations and societies. In 1927 

 he was an Honored Scientist of the R.S.F.S.R. Twice, 1941 and 

 1950, he was awarded Stalin Prizes. The Academy of Sciences 

 of the U.S.S.R. awarded Skryabin the Gold Medal of I. I. Mechni- 

 kov in 1949. In 1954 he was an Honored Member of the Kirghiz 

 S.S.R. and in 1958 a Hero of Socialist Labor. In 1957 he won a 

 Lenin Prize. The AU-Union Institute of Helminthology in Mos- 

 cow and the Kirghiz Agricultural Institute in Frunze are named 

 for him. 



The investigations of Skryabin are in morphology, biology, 

 phylogeny and systematics of parasitic worms, epidemiology 

 (epizootology) and organization of measures to control helmin- • 

 thosis of man and domestic animals. Under the leadership of 

 Skryabin there were conducted about 300 helminthologic expe- 

 ditions in various regions of the U.S.S.R. He introduced (with 

 R. S. Shul'ts) the concept of additional reservoir and transit 

 hosts and gave an analysis of the processes of migration of 

 various bladder worms in the bodies of a host; he introduced 

 the concept of geo- and biohelminthosis, the concept of de- 

 helminthization, devestation. The many instruction and refer- 

 ence books on control of helminthosis published by Skryabin are 

 widely utilized in medical and veterinary practice. He outlined 

 about 200 new types of bladder worms. 



As of 1961, Skryabin was a Vice-President of the Lenin AU- 

 Union Agricultural Academy. 

 Bibliography: 



and R.-Ed. S. Shul'ts. Helminthosis of Horned Cattle and Its 



Young Stock. Moscow: 1937. 



and R.-Ed. S. Shul'ts. Basis of Helminthology. Moscow: 



1940. 



and R.-Ed. S. Shul'ts, N. P. Shikhobalova. Trychostrongy- 



loidea of Man and Animals. Moscow: 1954. 



