Boris Orlov (biologist)

Boris Orlov (1935 to 2012) was a Soviet and Russian biologist, a Doctor of Biological Sciences and Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, born in Nizhny Novgorod. He graduated with honors from the Faculty of Biology of the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod in 1960 as a student of Nikolay Artemov, served as dean of that faculty from 1968 to 1971 and defended his doctoral thesis in 1972. He headed the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry of Humans and Animals at the university from 1974 to 1989 and the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry of Animals at the Nizhny Novgorod State Agriculture Academy from 1988 to 2012. He wrote 400 published scientific works, among them 20 monographs and textbooks, and was an academician of the European Academy of Natural Sciences.