Vasily Ermolaevich Ruzhentsev (russian: Василий Ермолаевич Руженцев, April 4, 1899 - October 12, 1978) was a Soviet

paleontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

malacologist Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, ...

and

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth and other terrestrial planets, as well as the processes that shape them. Geologists usually study geology, earth science, or geophysics, althou ...

. From 1937 to 1978 he worked at the

Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences The Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (PIN; russian: Палеонтологический институт РАН) in Moscow is among the world's largest paleontological institutes. An affiliate of the Russian Academy of Scienc ...

. He had 117 publications of which 17 were monographs. From 1966 to 1978 he was editor in chief of the Transactions of the Paleontological Institute.

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* Leonova, T.P. (2009
ВАСИЛИЙ ЕРМОЛАЕВИЧ РУЖЕНЦЕВ ‒ 110 ЛЕТСО ДНЯ РОЖДЕНИЯ
In: Современные проблемы изучения головоногих моллюсков. Морфология, систематика, эволюция, экология и биостратиграфия. - Russian Academy of Sciences (Jubilee symposium volume) 1899 births 1978 deaths Lenin Prize winners Soviet geologists Soviet malacologists Soviet paleontologists Paleontological Journal editors {{Russia-scientist-stub