Aleksandr Palladin

Aleksandr Volodymyrovych Palladin (; , 10 September 1885 – 6 December 1972) was a Ukrainian biochemist, professor and Soviet academician. He is known for establishing the Palladin Institute of Biochemistry and heading the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the post World War II period.

Aleksandr was born in a family of the Russian academician and biochemist Vladimir Palladin and was a student of a Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov.

After graduating Saint Petersburg State University in 1908, next year Palladin also studied at Heidelberg University. After that during 1909-1916 he worked in several institutes in Saint Petersburg. In 1916 Palladin became a professor of Novaya Aleksandria Institute of Agrarian Business and Forestry (today Kharkiv National Agrarian University of Dokuchayev) that was relocated from Puławy in Vistula Land (Congress of Poland) to Kharkiv.

Soon after the Red Army recovered the city of Kharkiv from the White Army, in 1921 he became a head of physiological chemistry department of the Kharkiv Medical Institute (today Kharkiv National Medical University) and at the same time staying at the agrarian institute as well for few more years.

External links

Palladin Institute of Biochemistry official website

Aleksandr Palladin at the Kiev city Wikipedia

Aleksandr Palladin at the Great Biographic Encyclopedia

Biography at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

Palladin at the Great Soviet Encyclopedia

1885 births

1972 deaths

People from Moskovsky Uyezd

Russians in Ukraine

Communist Party of the Soviet Union members

Second convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union

Third convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union

Fourth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union

Fifth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union

Soviet biochemists

Ukrainian biochemists

Saint Petersburg State University alumni

Heidelberg University alumni

Academic staff of Kharkiv National Medical University

Academic staff of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Presidents of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Academicians of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences

Recipients of the Lenin Prize

Heroes of Socialist Labour

Recipients of the Order of Lenin

Burials at Baikove Cemetery