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Pyotr Sushkin

Russian zoologist and paleontologist1868 to 1928

Wikidata names Mikhail Menzbier as doctoral advisor, lists 3 doctoral students, and lists 6 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 3 other registers.

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Pyotr Sushkin, pictured

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 Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught6

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

    Boris Stepanovich Vinogradov

    born 1891
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov

    born 1893
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Leonid Portenko

    born 1896
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Boris Stegmann

    born 1898
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Vadim D. Vladykov

    born 1898
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ivan Yefremov

    born 1908

The line above and below3 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 5 people: 5 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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