Vladimir Shevyakov

Vladimir Timofeyevich Shevyakov (Russian: Владимир Тимофеевич Шевяков; 29 October 1859, St. Petersburg – 18 October 1930, Irkutsk) publishing under the German spelling of his name as W. Shewiakoff, was a Russian biologist who worked on Protozoa, and a professor.

Shevyakov studied under Konstantin Mereschkowski in St. Petersburg and Otto Bütschli at the University of Heidelberg.

Shevyakov, together with Konstantin Arsenyev, was editor-in-chief of additional volumes of the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.

He was a professor at St. Petersburg University until 1911 when he left science and became a vice-minister in the government of Tsar Nicholas.

During the revolution he and his family moved first to Perm in Ural and in 1920 he became professor in Irkutsk.