Слепкова Н.В.
Зоологический институт Российской академии наук, Санкт-Петербург, Россия
DOI: 10.24412/2076-8176-2021-3-57-72
В статье приводятся материалы к биографии академика Александра Фёдоровича Алимова (9 ноября 1933 — 20 сентября 2019). А.Ф. Алимов возглавлял Зоологический институт РАН в 1994–2006 гг. Биографические сведения почерпнуты из его личного дела, хранящегося в ЗИН РАН, документов из архива семьи и рассказов его супруги ─ Лоры Павловны Алимовой. В основу рассказа о живописных работах академика, которые А.Ф. Алимов создавал в экспедициях и на отдыхе в своё свободное время, положены материалы выставки его работ, которая прошла в Зоологическом музее Зоологического института РАН в 2019–2020 гг.
Ключевые слова: академик А.Ф. Алимов, Зоологический институт РАН, Зоологический музей, выставка живописных работ.
Academician Alexander Alimov (1933–2019), a scientist and artist: materials for his biography
Nadezhda V. Slepkova
The Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
DOI: 10.24412/2076-8176-2021-3-57-72
This article provides materials concerning the main milestones of the biography of the academician Alexander Fedorovich Alimov (November 9, 1933 — September 20, 2019). His father, Feodor Alexandrovich Alimov, went missing in action in Stalingrad in 1942. During the War, Alimov was in the evacuation with his mother Vera Leonardova Alimova, born Rodziontkovskaya (1903–1974). After graduating from school, from 1949 to 1953 he studied at the Cinema College and worked at the Leningrad Film Projector Factory; from 1954 to 1957, served in the Navy. In 1957–1963, Alexander Alimov studied at the evening department of the Biological and Soil Faculty of Leningrad State University. He began to work at V.I. Zhadin’s laboratory at the Zoological institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1960. Having started as an aquarium laboratory technician in 1960, he defended his Candidate of Biological Sciences (Ph.D.) thesis in 1967 and his Doctor of Biological Sciences thesis in 1979. The same year Alimov became Deputy Director for Science, and in 1994, the Director. In 1990, he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and became its full member (Academician) in 2000. From 1994 to 2006, A.F. Alimov headed the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His most important monographs and awards are mentioned. A minor planet in the solar system was named after him. Since his young age, he never let his brushes out of his hands, sketching during his expeditions and on vacations in his spare time. The description of his art is based on the materials from his memorial exhibition held at the Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2019/2020.
Keywords: Academician A.F. Alimov, Zoological Institute RAS, Zoological Museum, exhibition of paintings.