However, in the spring of that year, during a political purge in Soviet scientific society, both Ivanov and all those who supported his experiment lost their positions. The chimpanzees were supposed to arrive in Sukhum in the summer of 1930. The scientist had to take the fertilised and other monkeys to the Sukhumi Nature Reserve in the USSR, where his experiments would continue. The Academy of Sciences did not agree to finance his operations. The problem was the experiment was conducted under challenging conditions, and by mid-1927, Ivanov had run out of funds. In his report to the Academy of Sciences, Ivanov pointed out the experiment failed, but this, of course, does not mean that crossing is fundamentally impossible.
The third died in France, but it was not pregnant at the time. By then, it was clear the first two monkeys had never gotten pregnant. In July 1927, Ivanov and his son left Africa with thirteen chimpanzees. On June 25, another monkey was fertilised in the same way. On February 28, 1927, two female chimpanzees caught by local station employees were fertilised with human sperm obtained from male volunteers. The scientist arrived there in November 1926. Unfortunately, upon arrival on the island, it turned out that there were not enough adult chimpanzees on the station, so the experiment had to be postponed for another six months.Įventually, the Governor of Guinea permitted Ivanov to work in the botanical gardens of Conakry. In 1924 Ivanov, accompanied by his son, a biologist, arrived at the research station in French Guinea. Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870-1932), Russian/Soviet biologist believed to have attempted to create human-ape hybrid /sa4UQYgvmp The Soviet authorities supported the project, and the money was allocated. The French agreed to provide him with a station in French Guinea. In September 1924, he applied to the People’s Commissariat for Education to sponsor his daring experiments at the research station in Africa. Ivanov decided his time had come as the country began to recover from the devastation of the civil war. In the 1920s, the newly formed Soviet Union tried to undermine religious thinking and justify its deliberately technocratic society’s superiority. He openly announced his intention to interbreed a man with an ape at the International Congress of Zoologists in Graz in 1910. Moreover, he supported his theoretical knowledge with practical results: he produced hybrids of donkey and zebra, domestic cow and bison, interbred a cow with an antelope, and significantly improved horse-breeding. Ivanov was sure his experiments could significantly advance science.
Most of all, however, the Soviet scientist was inspired by the idea of breeding a human-ape hybrid. His method of artificial insemination of farm animals is used today. Ilya Ivanov specialised in the field of artificial insemination and the breeding of different animal species. But he was not the only one to go along that path. In real life, Professor Ivanov tried to create a hybrid of a human and chimpanzee, or ‘humanzee’. In the book, the genius doctor accidentally produces a man out of a stray dog when a rejuvenating experiment goes wrong. The Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanov became the inspiration for Professor Preobrazhensky in Mikhail Bulgakov’s science fiction novel Heart of a Dog.
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