Casts Vasiliy

(02.1902 - 1937)

Born in a family of teachers. He graduated from high school in Ryazan and the footsteps of the brothers was involved in revolutionary activities. In 1919, Mr.. joined the Communist Party, studied at the Communist University in Moscow. In 1922, Mr.. entered the Communist University in Petersburg and devoted himself to biology, which had long been interested. In the future, here taught biology. In 1925, Mr.. published the first article devoted to criticism of the book A. Filipchenko "Eugenics". Showed deep erudition and knowledge of Marxist and biological literature. Paying homage to Neo-Lamarckism, played for the inheritance of acquired characteristics, against the separation of genotype and phenotype, maintained that the internal causes of mutations - a "metaphysical abstraction". In the same year, being a listener of the Institute of red professsury in Moscow, went to work in the laboratory BM Zavadovskiy at the Sverdlov University for the experimental study of inheritance of acquired characteristics. Then, working in the laboratory of AS Serebrovsky, changed his views. Participated in research on the complex structure of the gene mutation in Drosophila received under the action of X-rays. In 1928, Mr.. was a scientific mission in Berlin in the laboratory of a large zoologist and geneticist K. Stern (in 1933. emigrated to the United States). From 1929. taught at the University of Kazan and Tatarstan Communist University, lectured on genetics, dialectical and historical materialism, led a workshop on Theoretical Biology. Author of books "Eugenics", "Genetics," Biology and Marxism ". In 1933. arrested, placed in a political, then exiled to Ufa. In Ufa taught in the medical and pedagogical institutes, conducted pilot studies on the genetics. In 1936, Mr.. deprived of work, then arrested again. Shot.