Vadim Gratshev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vadim Gratshev

Russian scientist

Date of Birth: 01-May-1963

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 17-Oct-2006

Profession: paleontologist, entomologist, paleoentomologist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Vadim Gratshev

  • Vadim Gennadyevich Gratshev (1 May 1963?17 October 2006) was one of world leading experts in palaeoentomology.
  • Vadim graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 1987 and taught biology at a high school for three years until 1989.
  • Then he decided to pursue academic science and joined the Laboratory of Arthropods at the Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in 1991, first as a Kuperwood Fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and since 1994 as a full-time researcher.
  • Weevils and dryopoids were always his main passion, although his area of interests extended far beyond that.
  • He produced over 20 scientific papers, including an outstanding comparative study of the hindwing venation of the superfamily Curculionoidea published in co-authorship with Vladimir Zherikhin.
  • Being a keen field researcher, he participated in numerous expeditions to the Maritime Province and Sakhalin Island, Kuznetskii Alatau, Novosibirsk Region, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tajikistan, Turkmenia, and Ukraine.
  • The material he collected on his trip to the Drakensberg and Zululand in 2005 inspired him to commence a new project on Afrotropical Elmidae and Anthribidae.
  • Being an optimistic, cheerful multi-talented individual with subtle sense of humour, he did not restrict his interests to extinct and extant beetles.
  • He was an expert in noble orchids, aquarium design and raising geckos, and published several papers on those topics.
  • He was a skillful wood-carver, and his knowledge of Japanese history and literature was not amateur.

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