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Filipp Vasilievich Ovsyannikov (Russian: Филипп Васильевич Овсянников; 26 June [O.S. 14 June] 1827–11 June [O.S. 29 May] 1906) was the first Russian histologist and the founder of sturgeon breeding.

Ovsyannikov graduated from the University of Dorpat in 1853. He worked in Claude Bernard's laboratory in 1860 and in Carl Ludwig's laboratory in 1869. He held the chair in physiology at the University of Kazan from 1858 to 1862 and the chair in anatomy at the University of Saint Petersburg from 1864 to 1886. In 1864, he established the Physiological Laboratory for the Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Ovsyannikov's laboratory was used for research by such young physiologists as Elias von Cyon and Ivan Pavlov.

In 1869, Ovsyannikov pioneered artificial reproduction of sterlet. A series of experiments with fish breeding won him a gold medal from the Free Economic Society. In 1871, he discovered the vasomotor center and determined its precise limits in the medulla oblongata.

References

1. ^ Овсянников Филипп Васильевич Biography in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
2. Martin Hochleithner, Jörn Gessner. The Sturgeons and Paddlefishes of the World. AquaTech, 2001. ISBN 9783950096804. Page 6.
3. Problems of Ichthyology. Volume 9. American Fisheries Society, 1969. Page 272.
4. Galina Kichigina. The Imperial Laboratory: Experimental Physiology and Clinical Medicine in Post-Crimean Russia. Rodopi, 2009. Page 264.
5. Owsjannikow, PH. Die tonischen und reflektorischen Centren der Gefäßnerven. / Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig (1871) 23.

• Physiologists from the Russian Empire
• Neuroscientists from the Russian Empire
• Histologists
• Pisciculturists
• University of Tartu alumni
• Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University
• 1827 births
• 1906 deaths
• 19th-century scientists from the Russian Empire
• 20th-century Russian scientists