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Yarotsky Alexander (1866–1944) – Russian medic of general profile, therapist, and psychiatrist, interested in the issues of religious psychology. In 1889, he graduated from the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg; then, he was medical doctor in ‘Zemstvo’ of the Tver province; from 1894, he worked in various hospitals. In 1898, he became Doctor of Medicine, having defended his thesis ‘On Changes in the Size and Structure of Pancreatic Cells under Certain Types of Starvation’. In March 1901, Ya. was expelled from St. Petersburg for participating in a political demonstration, after which he worked for two years in Paris, at the Pasteur Institute, under the leadership of Ilya Mechnikov. In 1903, Ya. returned to Russia and became a professor at Yuryevsky (Tartu) University.

Zabelin Ivan (1820‒1908) – historian, archeologist, bibliophile, collector of Russian antiquities. In 1832, he entered to the Moscow Preobrazhenskoe school at the Catherine’s Orphan House. After it, he had no chance to keep his education, because he had to earn money for life. In 1837, he started to serve as a clerk of the second rank at the Armoury, where they held weapons, utensils, clothes, and documents of the sixteenth – seventeenth centuries. That place determined his further destiny. Since 1848, he became Assistant of Archivist; since 1856 – Archivist of the Moscow palace Office. He not only kept, but also studied documents of the palace archive and objects of the Armoury.

Zabylin Mikhail () – historian and ethnographer of the nineteenth century, the author of the work ‘Russian People: Its Habits, Rites, Legends, Superstitions, and Poetry. In 4 parts’. Moscow, M. Berezin Publisher and Trader, 1880, 607 p. The book is still actual; it was republished several times: Moscow, Kniga-Printklassik Publishing House, 1990; Moscow, Russkaya kniga Publishing House, 1996; Moscow, Ripolklassik Publishing House, 1997.

Zaitsev Alexander Iosifovich (1926–2000) – classical philologist, translator, historian of philosophy. Was born in Leningrad. During the II World war he was evacuated to Ufa in the summer of 1942, where he graduated from high school. Studied at the Faculty of History of the Ufa Pedagogical Institute (1944-1945) and at the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad University (1945-1947).

Zarin Peter () – in 1930-s, he was Chairman of the Voronezh Regional Council of the League of Militant Atheists; he wrote booklets and articles on religion and Church. There is few information on Z. He, perhaps, studied at the Ya. M. Sverdlov Communist University in Moscow, after which was sent to Voronezh for work. He published articles in the local newspapers ‘Voronezhskaya kommuna’ and ‘Voronezhskyi bezbozhnik’ (The Commune of Voronezh; The Atheist of Voronezh), and was Executive Editor in both of them.

Zelenin Dmitry (1878–1954) – ethnographer and folklorist, specialist in Slavic culture. In 1898, he graduated from the Vyatka Spiritual Seminary and entered the Historical and philological Faculty of the Yuriev University; he graduated from it in 1904. In his student’s years, he started his research in the field of folk culture and language (‘Songs of Countryside Youth. Vyatka’, 1903; ‘Folk Sayings and Anecdotes about Russian People of the Vyatka Region’. Vyatka 1904). In 1915, at the St. Petersburg University, he defended his Master thesis about the Velikorussian dialects; in 1917, at the Moscow University, he defended his Doctor thesis ‘Essays on Russian Mythology’. He became Ass. Docent of the Petrograd University (1915-1916).

Zelinsky Faddey (Tadeusz Stephan) (1859–1944) – philologist, specialist in classical culture. He was born in a noble Polish family. In 1876, he finished Annenschule in St. Petersburg and got a three-year scholarship for studying at the Russian philological seminary in Leipzig; then he enrolled to the University of Leipzig; in 1880, he got there the PhD degree. In 1882, he returned to St. Petersburg; in 1883, he defended his Master thesis at the St. Petersburg University. In 1887, he got the Doctor degree in classical philology at the University of Dorpat (now Tartu). Since 1887, he was free-lance Professor, and since 1890 – Full Professor at the Chair of Classical Philology of the Historical and Philological Faculty of the St. Petersburg University (he worked at that position till 1922). In 1906-1908, he was Dean of the Faculty.

Zhebelev Sergey (1867–1941) – philologist, specialist in classical literature and culture. In 1886, he finished the Second St. Petersburg Gymnasium; in 1890, he graduated from the Historical and Philological Faculty of the St. Petersburg University. In 1898, he defended his Master thesis ‘From the History of the Athens, 229-231 BC’; and in 1903, – his Doctor thesis ‘ΑХАIКА. In the Region of the Ancient Province of Achaea’. Since 1891, he worked at the University; since 1899, he became Ass. Docent; since 1904 – free-lance Professor of the Historical and Philological Faculty; since 1913 – Full Professor; then – till 1927, he was Professor of the Faculty of Social Studies/Faculty of language and Material Culture. In 191801919, he was Dean of the Faculty and Rector of the University.

Znamensky Petr (1836–1917) – church historian, major works on the Synodal period of the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was the first in Russia to study the Church economics and parish life. He graduated from the Theological School in Nizhny Novgorod (1846-1850), and the Seminary (1850-1856). In 1860, he graduated from the Kazan Theological Academy with a Master's degree in Theology (dissertation ‘Review of the Provisions on Ecclesiastic Affairs in Russia, Published in the Early Eighteenth Century’). Doctor of Theology (1875) (dissertation ‘Parish Clergy since the Reform of Peter’). Corresponding Member Imp. Ac. of Sc. (1892). Doctor in Civic History honoris causa of the Moscow University (1892).

Zolotarev Aleksander (1907–1943) – ethnographer. He was born in Kharkov; in 1924, he entered to the Moscow Plekhanov Institute of People’s Economic, where he studied at the Economic and Technological Faculties; in 1930, he entered the post-graduate courses of the State Academy of the History of Material Culture. After it he stayed to work at the Academy, as well as at the Institute of Anthropology at the Moscow State University, at the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History, at the Moscow Regional Techers-Training Institute. In 1939-1941, he worked at the Chair of Ethnography of the Moscow State University.