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Ivan Yefremov
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Soviet paleontologist, science fiction author and social thinker (1908–1972)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- More Soviet science fiction
- Andromeda
- Andromeda Nebula
- Andromeda Nebulasi
- The Heart of the Serpent
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Born
- Ivan Antipovich Yefremov , 23 April 1908, Gatchinsky District , Saint Petersburg Governorate , Russian Empire
- Died
- 5 October 1972 (1972-10-05) (aged 64), Moscow , RSFSR , Soviet Union
- Occupation
- Paleontologist, writer
- Language
- Russian
- Alma mater
- Leningrad Mining Institute
- Genre
- Science fiction , historical novel
- Subject
- Palaeontology
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ivan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Place of birth
- Vyritsa
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- short story writer
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Student of
- Pyotr Sushkin
- Field of work
- paleontology
- Image
- Иван Ефремов 1925 cropped.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ivan Yefremov
- date of death
- 1972-10-08
- date of birth
- 1908-04-23
- member of
- USSR Union of Writers
- topic's main category
- Category:Ivan Yefremov
- place of burial
- Cemetery in Komarovo
- ethnic group
- Russians
- name in native language
- Иван Антонович Ефремов
- writing language
- Russian
- author citation (zoology)
- Iefrémov
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Ivan Antonovich (Antipovich) Yefremov, sometimes Efremov (Russian: Ива́н Анто́нович (Анти́пович) Ефре́мов; 23 April 1908 – 5 October 1972) was a Soviet paleontologist, science-fiction author and social thinker. He founded taphonomy, the study of fossilization patterns.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ivan Yefremov” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.