In regards to the triffids ' creation, some editions of the novel make brief mention of the theories of the Soviet agronomist and would-be biologist Trofim Lysenko ; eventually thoroughly debunked, Lysenkoism at the time of the novel's creation was still being defended by some prominent international Stalinists.

The existence of a compensatory mechanism for telomere shortening was first predicted by Soviet biologist Alexey Olovnikov in 1973, who also suggested the telomere hypothesis of aging and the telomere's connections to cancer.

The 1981 TV series and some editions of the book have Masen speculating that the triffids were the creation of the real-life Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko.

" Primordial soup " is a term introduced by the Soviet biologist Alexander Oparin.

* October 2-Olga Lepeshinskaya ( born 1871 ), Soviet Lysenkoist biologist.

According to Soviet biologist Mikhail P. Pavlov, writing after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party exploited this message to justify restrictions on firearm ownership in wolf inhabited areas.

* Igor Alexandrovich Shilov ( b. 1921 ), Soviet biologist ecologist

In the 1920s the Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov carried out a series of experiments to create a human / non human ape hybrid.

Georgii Adamovich Nadson (-April 15, 1939 ) was a Soviet biologist, " one of the pioneers of radioecology in Russia " In 1930, he founded the Laboratory of Microbiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( which in 1934 was transferred from Leningrad to Moscow and later transformed into the Institute of Microbiology ).

Nikolay Petrovich Dubinin ( January 4, 1907 – March 26, 1998 ) was a Soviet and Russian biologist and academician.

* Georgii Adamovich Nadson, Soviet biologist

The AVL tree is named after its two Soviet inventors, G. M. Adelson-Velskii and E. M. Landis, who published it in their 1962 paper " An algorithm for the organization of information.

The square was named on March 16, 1991, as the Press House was still occupied by the Soviet Army.

In the late 1940s, a Soviet soldier named Constantin Esmont made detailed records of the various types of borzoi he found in Cossack villages.

A minor planet, 3623 Chaplin, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina in 1981, is named after him.

* In Spain, during the Spanish Civil War, the detention and torture centers operated by the Communists were named " checas " after the Soviet organization.

Soviet vice-president Gennadiy Yanayev was named acting president.

Attempting to resolve the issue, in 1994, the IUPAC proposed the name joliotium ( Jl ), after the French physicist Frédéric Joliot-Curie, which was originally proposed by Soviet team for element 102, later named nobelium.

However, the Soviet Union was fiercely competitive in holding the early lead it had gained in manned spaceflight, so the Soviet Communist Party, led by Nikita Khrushchev, ordered the hasty conversion of its single-pilot Vostok capsule into a two-or three-person craft named Voskhod, in order to compete with Gemini and Apollo.

In 1955, the USSR declared the Soviet occupation zone – the historic middle portion of Germany – to be a sovereign state named the Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( German Democratic Republic, established in 1949 ), while the Red Army and the Western Allies ' occupation forces remained in place under the tripartite Potsdam Agreement ( 1945 ) which established the Allied Occupation of Germany.

The strip chronicled the adventures of a young reporter named Tintin and his pet fox terrier Snowy ( Milou ) as they journeyed through the Soviet Union.

The minor planet 2212 Hephaistos discovered in 1978 by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh was named in Hephaestus ' honour.

Soviet WW2 missile systems were named according standard templates which are the following:

Two dwarf species, named Orcinus nanus and Orcinus glacialis, were described during the 1980s by Soviet researchers, but most cetacean researchers are skeptical about their status, and linking these directly to the types described below is difficult.

In 1960, after Brezhnev was named chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ( titular head of state of the Soviet Union ), Chernenko became his chief of staff.

Two towns were also named after him: Voroshilovgrad in Ukraine ( now changed back to the historical Luhansk ) and Voroshilov in the Soviet Far East ( now renamed Ussuriysk after the Ussuri river ), as well as the General Staff Academy in Moscow.

* 2233 Kuznetsov, an asteroid named for Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov ( 1911 – 1944 ), a Russian partisan fighter of World War II, and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

He named it the " etherphone ";, to be known as the Терменвокс ( Termenvox ) in the Soviet Union, as the Thereminvox in Germany, and later as the " theremin " in the United States.

Laika, a stray dog, originally named Kudryavka ( Little Curly ), underwent training with two other dogs, and was eventually chosen as the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on November 3, 1957.

A minor planet 2859 Paganini discovered in 1978 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh is named after him.

Lake Karachay, named by the Worldwatch Institute as the " most polluted spot " on earth, served as a disposal site for the Soviet Union throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

A minor planet 2190 Coubertin discovered in 1976 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh is named in his honour.

There are important exceptions to this, for example, Republics in the Soviet Union were member states which had to meet three criteria to be named republics:

Sambia became part of the Soviet Kaliningrad Oblast, named after the nearby city of Kaliningrad ( historically or ), and the new authorities expelled its German inhabitants.

Trofim Lysenko however caused a backlash of what is now called Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union when he emphasised Lamarckian ideas on the inheritance of acquired traits.

They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations .” Following the Russian Revolution, environmental scientists such as revolutionary Aleksandr Bogdanov and the Proletkul't organisation made efforts to incorporate environmentalism into Bolshevism, and " integrate production with natural laws and limits " in the first decade of Soviet rule, before Joseph Stalin attacked ecologists and the science of ecology, purged environmentalists and promoted the pseudo-science of Trofim Lysenko.

Polanyi noted what happened to the study of genetics in the Soviet Union once the doctrines of Trofim Lysenko gained the backing of the State.

** Soviet scientists condemn Trofim Lysenko for pseudoscience.

Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (,, Trochym Denysovyč Lysenko ) ( November 20, 1976 ) was a Soviet pseudoscientist of Ukrainian origin, who was director of Soviet biology under Joseph Stalin.

Another post-war activity was Huxley's attack on the Soviet politico-scientist Trofim Lysenko, who had espoused a Lamarckian heredity, made unscientific pronouncements on agriculture, used his influence to destroy classical genetics in Russia and to move genuine scientists from their posts.

A form of Lamarckism was revived in the Soviet Union of the 1930s when Trofim Lysenko promoted Lysenkoism which suited the ideological opposition of Joseph Stalin to genetics.

Muller and much of the Russian genetics community did what they could to oppose Trofim Lysenko and his Larmarckian evolutionary theory, but Muller was soon forced to leave the Soviet Union after Stalin read a translation of his eugenics book and was " displeased by it, and ... ordered an attack prepared against it.

Along with collectivisation, the central Government decreed several changes in agricultural techniques based on the ideas of Soviet pseudoscientist Trofim Lysenko.

Extracts from Trofim Kichko's notorious 1963 volume, Judaism Without Embellishment, were extensively republished in the Soviet media.

Under Stalin, thanks to the influence of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko ( Director of the Soviet Lenin All-Union Institute of Agricultural Sciences ), Mendelian genetics was officially rejected in favour of Lysenkoism, which was derived from the Lamarkian beliefs of horticulturist Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin.