61:. His last publication under the name of Jasykov was published in 1931. After being held hostage by counter-revolutionaries during an expedition and losing his identification papers, he took on the name of step-father and subsequently published under the name of Zachvatkin. He moved to the All Union Institute of Plant Protection, Leningrad and then moved in 1933 to the entomological laboratory of the State University of Moscow. He studied Tyroglyphidae (Acarina) and obtained a Ph.D. in 1935 and a Doctor of Biological Sciences in 1939. He then became a professor of entomology at Moscow. His work on mites led him to propose in 1952, based on the development of the fourth pair of legs, the classification of the Acarina into Acariformes, Parasitiformes, and Opiliocarina. He received the Stalin Prize twice but clashed with followers of
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