Nikolai Mikhailovich Kulagin

(19.I.1860, s.Shilovichi Duhovschinskogo district of Smolensk province - 1.III.1940, Moskva)
Corresponding Member of USSR Academy of Sciences, full member of the BSSR and Agricultural Sciences, Honored Scientist of RSFSR. In 1884, Mr.. graduated from Moscow University, worked in the same. Most important are labor to. on bee-keeping and pest (insects) crop. To. received a number of new data on the biology of insect pests and the honey bee. He studied the problem of old age and death, the evolution of animal life and issues of reproduction and heredity of animals.

Lit.: TSB. - Publishing. 2-e. - T. 24 (1953). - C.8; Biographical Dictionary figures of Science and Technology. - Volume 1, 1958. - P. 468; Agricultural Encyclopedia. - Izd.Z th, 1951. - S.599-600; Outstanding domestic zoologists. - M., 1955. - P.206-209.