Zhores Medvedev
| Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Жорес Александрович Медведев |
| Born |
November 14, 1925 Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Fields | biology, gerontology |
| Alma mater | Russian State Agricultural University |
| Known for | human rights activism with participation in dissident movement in the Soviet Union |
Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (Russian: Жоре́с Алекса́ндрович Медве́дев; born 14 November 1925 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Russian biologist, historian and dissident. His twin brother is the historian Roy Medvedev.
Zhores (Cyrillic transliteration of Jaures family name) Medvedev and his twin brother Roy Medvedev were born on 14 November 1925 in Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR.
From 1926 until 1938, the Medvedev family lived in Leningrad. Medvedev's father, Aleksandr Romanovich Medvedev, was a professor at the Military-Political Academy with the military rank of brigade commissar. In August 1938, Aleksandr was arrested in a wave of political terror, charged as a "follower of Bukharin" and sentenced to eight years of forced labor. He died in March 1941 in one of the Kolyma Far Eastern camps. The rest of the family – Zhores, Roy and mother Yalia – moved to Rostov-on-Don. In September 1941, the family was evacuated to Tbilisi, shortly before the first German occupation of Rostov-on-Don.
In February 1943, Medvedev was drafted into the Soviet Army and sent as a foot soldier to the Taman front, where he was wounded and later discharged from the army. In 1944, Medvedev began studies at the K.A. Timiryazev Russian State Agricultural University. In December 1950, he was awarded a PhD degree (kandidat biologicheskikh nauk) for his research into sexual processes in plants. He became a Junior Research Scientist in the Agrochemistry and Biochemistry Department at Timiryazev Academy and he was promoted to Senior Research Scientist in 1954 and would remain at the academy until 1963.
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