Academic Ancestry

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Gennady Sobolev

1935 to 2026

Wikidata names Sigizmund Valk as doctoral advisor, lists 1 doctoral student, names Sigizmund Valk as teacher, and lists 4 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, VIAF, and 3 other registers.

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Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Sigizmund Valk

Taught4

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Nikolay Smirnov

    born 1952
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Boris Kolonitsky

    born 1955
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Mikhail Viktorovich Khodiakov

    born 1964
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Boris Kovalyov

    born 1965

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 1 person: 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.