Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, an outstanding Russian mineralogist, biogeochemist, historian of science, philosopher, and political figure especially concerned himself with the origin and historical development of humankind as a natural stage of the biosphere evolution, and a place of man as an “autotrophic” species in a present-day biosphere. The peak of his research work fell on
Born in 1870, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, who later changed his name to Vladimir Lenin, was the son of a civil service official in the Russian government. Lenin became interested in socialism and revolution when his brother Aleksander was executed in 1887 for being part of a group that attempted to execute Alexander III. Shortly thereafter
Russian paleontologist Vladimir O. Kovalevskii was noted for his contribution to the development of phylogenic sequences or stages of evolution in species with an adaptive perspective. Brother to biologist Aleksandr, Vladimir is perhaps best known for his depiction of the transitional sequence involving the species Equus. Although educated in law as an undergraduate, he paid