Dmitry Konstantinovich Belyayev

Russian biologist (1917-1985) · Died at 68

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Domesticated silver fox

Awards

Order of Lenin

Order of the Red Star

Order of the October Revolution

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

About this person

Dmitry Konstantinovich Belyayev was a Soviet geneticist and academician who served as director of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics (IC&G) of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, from 1959 to 1985. His decades-long effort to breed domesticated silver foxes was described by The New York Times as “arguably the most extraordinary breeding experiment ever conducted.” A 2010 article in Scientific American stated that Belyayev “may be the man most responsible for our understanding of the process by which wolves were domesticated into our canine companions.”

Status

deceased

Dates

Lived 1917 to 1985 · aged 68

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