Viktor Grebennikov

Viktor Stepanovich Grebennikow (Russian Виктор Степанович Гребенников; born April 23, 1927 in Simferopol, † 10 April 2001 Krasnoobsk near Novosibirsk ) was a Russian naturalist, entomologist, conservationist, writer and book illustrator.

After Grebennikow had spent his childhood and youth in the Crimea, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, he was from the 1940s to 1976, mostly in Issilkul ( Omsk Oblast ), then active in Krasnoobsk in Novosibirsk. From 1947 to 1953 he was in a prison camp in the southern Urals. First above all a painter and book illustrator, he wrote in the 1960s mainly (popular ) scientific articles and books on insects, especially on bees.

In the early 1970s he focused on private initiative in a Issilkul a forest steppes and insect - protected area. Today, the area is listed in the official list of protected areas in the Omsk Oblast as Issilkulskaja reliktowaja lessostep ( Issilkuler relict forest-steppe ).

1976 is set in Krasnoobsk in Novosibirsk a museum for Agro ecology and conservation under his direction in the Siberian Scientific Research Institute of Agriculture and use of chemicals in agriculture ( Sibirski NII semledelija i chimisazii selskowo chosjaistwa ), which now bears his name. Also in the 1980s, he is committed to the establishment of nature reserves in the Novosibirsk and Omsk oblasts.

Since the 1980s, Grebennikow turned increasingly to the so-called para-science. He claimed to have invented a levitation platform which is intended to operate by means of located on the underside insect body parts, so their Chitinteilen. He published detailed descriptions of his discovery in 1988 and wrote about his experiences for flights over Russia and the Soviet Union. Grebennikow also claimed that on its flights, the " geometrical energy " of chitin, a " zeitverschiebendes force field " generated, which made his camera inoperable.