Garry Izrailevich Abelev (Russian: Гарри Израйлевич Абелев; 10 January 1928 – 23 December 2013) was a Russian scientist, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2000), Doctor of Biological Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (1998).Laureate of the 1978 USSR State Prize. Born and died in Moscow.He graduated from the Department of Biochemistry of Plants at the Lomonosov Moscow State University.He studied at the Moscow State University from 1945 to 1950. In 1955 he defended his Candidate's Dissertation.In 1963 he defended his doctoral dissertation.