SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY OF A.S. SEREBROVSKYI (1892–1948) IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF FARM ANIMAL GENETICS

Abstract

INTRODUCTION Achievements of modern molecular genetics, technology of cloning organisms, DNA technologies are largely associated with significant theoretical and practical work of domestic geneticists of the 1920’s–1940’s. Among intellectual elite a significant role belongs to A.S. Serebrovskyi – one of the prominent Soviet geneticists, whose creative heritage was intensely ignored in the first, and was largely not appreciated in the second half of the last century. Some aspects of the scientist’s activities were highlighted in the scientific works by M.M. Aslanian, N.B. Varshaver, N.V. Glotov 1 , A. Bezzubtsev-Kondakov 2 , V. Soifer 3 and other authors. But to this day, a comprehensive study of his creative activity, an analysis of scientific heritage has not yet been carried out. The purpose of this article in the context of historical events associated with the development of domestic and world genetics during the first half of the 20th century is to present biographical data that highlights the life and fate of the famous geneticist A.S. Serebrovskyi in science; and also consider his contribution to genetics and, in general, to biological science, focusing on the scale of his ideas, its perception by contemporaries of the scientist and the significance of these ideas for our time. The general scientific and interdisciplinary methods used to solve research tasks. Particular attention paid to special historical methods,