Rustem Zhantiev

Rustem Devletovich Zhantiev Dn (Russian: Рустем Девлетович Жантиев; 11 October 1937 – 5 August 2026) was a Russian Crimean Tatar scientist, specialising in the fields of the systematics, ecology and physiology of insect acoustic communication, orientation, and neurophysiology.

Life and career

In 1960 he graduated from Department of Entomology in the Biological Faculty of Moscow State University. From 1960 to 1963 he worked in the Post-graduate Department of Entomology and from 1963 to the present he has worked at Moscow State University. In 1966 he wrote his thesis The taxonomic and ecological analysis of Sem. Dermestidae (Coleoptera) and in 1980 his PhD on insect bioacoustics.

In 1982 he became a professor, giving lectures and seminars on insect physiology, Coleoptera, the Principles of Zoological Systematics and the modern problems and methods of entomology. He became a laureate of the USSR State Prize in 1987, the same year as he was given the Medal "Veteran of Labour". Since 1990 he has been the head of the Department of Entomology in the Faculty of Biology at Moscow State University, where he became an Emeritus Professor in 1998. In 1997 he was given the Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" and in 2002 he was made an Honoured Worker of the Higher Schools of the Russian Federation.

Zhantiev died on 5 August 2026, at the age of 88.

Awards

• USSR State Prize (1987)
• Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1987)
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" (1997)

Major works

Zhantiev wrote over 100 works, including:

References

External links

• Zoological Institute of the Russian Institute of Sciences - biography