Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov

Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov (Russian Юрий Александрович Орлов; * 31 Maijul / June 12 1893greg in Tomyschewo at Sysran, .. † October 2, 1966 in Moscow) was a Russian zoologist and paleontologist. He was director since 1945, Palaeontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Orlov studied zoology and anatomy at the State University of St. Petersburg. He then taught from 1916 to 1924 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Perm, in the former civil war turmoil under some very difficult conditions, and from 1924 to 1935 at the Institute for Brain Research and the Military Medical Academy in Leningrad. At that time, he dealt with the nervous system of arthropods. From 1925 he began to deal with paleontology, his old love of youth times. He taught at the Mining Academy in Leningrad and from 1939 at the Lomonosov University in Moscow.

It dealt primarily as a paleontologist with tertiary mammals and the therapsids (group of early mammalian relatives ) of the Permian.

He was editor of a fifteen- volume series Fundamentals of paleontology.

Orlov was a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences ( corresponding member since 1953, full member since 1960) and was posthumously awarded the Lenin Prize in 1967. In 1962 he was made an honorary member of the Paleontological Society.

Founded in 1937 ( and was opened in 1987 in a new building) Moscow Paleontological Museum is named after him ( Orlov Museum of Palaeontology, Russian Палеонтологический им. Ю музей. А. Орлова ).