sentences:  The Institute of Zoology in Kiev was later named in his honour the I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology.On 23 August 1948 he became victim of order 1208, one of a series signed by Minister of Higher Education in the USSR, , which led to the mass dismissals of many university professors.This destroyed his career, as it removed his professorship and also decreed the destruction of his books and research projects.