Life
Zelinsky studied at the University of Tiraspol, University of Odessa, and abroad at the University of Leipzig and University of Göttingen with Victor Meyer he received his master and his Ph.D from the University of Novorossisk in 1888 and 1891. He was appointed professor at the University of Moscow in 1893, where worked till his retirement with the exceptions of the years between 1911 and 1917. His main research area was the chemistry of cyclic hydrocarbons.
The Zelinskiy Institute of Organic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences is named after him.
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