Vladimir Bogachev

Vladimir Vladimirovich Bogachev (February 7 , 1881, Novocherkassk – December 11, 1965, Baku) was a Russian and Soviet geologist and paleontologist, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, professor, and Honored Scientist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1936).

Biography Born 19 February 1881 in Novocherkassk into the family of mining engineer Vladimir Fyodorovich Bogachev (1848 – 7 September 1919, Novocherkassk). He was the eldest of seven children.

He studied at the Novocherkassk Men's Gymnasium. He engaged in painting, and his works were exhibited by the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1900 at the Paris World's Fair. During his university years, he published 14 scientific papers.

During the German occupation, he was in Rostov-on-Don, continuing to teach at Rostov University and participating in the reorganization of the Museum of the History of Don Cossacks in Novocherkassk. — Bogachev wrote in the "Novocherkassk Bulletin" on 29 September 1942.

Repression In 1943, he was arrested by the NKVD. He spent some time in Saratov Prison and was convicted by the military tribunal of the NKVD troops of Rostov Oblast on 5–6 June 1943 under Article 58, paragraph 1a, to 10 years of imprisonment followed by 5 years of disenfranchisement. From archival documents: "From 1944 to 1946, Bogachev worked in a special laboratory in Moscow; in the following seven years, he worked in a research laboratory in the camps of Ukhta and Vorkuta."

First wife — Olga Orovna Bogacheva (née Dubyaga) — philologist, children: Alexey (1909–1977) — entomologist, Institute of Zoology of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences, Kyiv. Anastasia (1912–1993) — translator, physician. Second wife — Alexandra Ilyinichna Shishkina-Bogacheva (née Ivanovich; 1887–1958) — associate professor, children: Dmitry (before 1920–1944) — entomologist. Marina, physician.

Scientific Work He studied the origin and evolution of freshwater fauna, the history of freshwater and brackish-water faunas of Eurasia, the North Caucasus, the Eastern Caucasus, Western Siberia, and Kazakhstan. He researched Cenozoic mollusks, describing over 500 species of Tertiary and Quaternary freshwater mollusks, and studied butterflies of the Don region, the Miocene of Novocherkassk, among other topics. He was the first researcher of the Binagadi Quaternary fauna site. Bogachev discovered many unknown species of extinct animals: a Miocene whale and dolphin, Pliocene dolphin, aurochs, gazelle, deer, and others.

In 1912, he published a book in Yuryev titled Atlantis: Mythical Atlantis and Geological Atlantis. Soviet scientist Nikolai Feodosievich Zhirov called Bogachev the founder of Russian scientific atlantology.

At the request of Don Ataman P. N. Krasnov, Bogachev quickly wrote the book Essays on the Geography of the Great Don Host, published in 1919. Bogachev emphasized that "the borders of the Host had undergone historical transformations by the time of writing" (referring primarily to the partial dismemberment of the Host territory by Peter the Great). The following year, the Bolsheviks completely abolished the Oblast of the Great Don Host as a political entity.