Abstract:
Z.B. Vulikh was born in Odessa in the family of merchants. After high school in Odessa, Z. Vulikh went to St. Petersburg and entered the Physics and Mathematics Department of St. Petersburg University. In 1868, he went in for candidate of physical and mathematical sciences examination. Then he finishes in the 2-nd military school two-year teacher training courses , where his teachers were Vasily Adrianovich Evtushevsky (1836-1888) and Ivan Fedorovich Rashevsky (1831-1897), and where he began to teach since 1870. In 1873 he published his " Preparatory Course of Geometry", and later "The course of geometry," and dozens of articles in various journals. In 1885 he was invited to give lessons in mathematics to august children: Georgy and Xenia Alexandrovna and later Mikhail and Olga. In 1893 he was an inspector in Alexandrovskiy Lyceum, in 1896 - a head of schools of the capital and Tsarskoye Selo, and at the same time, a head of the Mariinsky female schools. On 11 (23) of February Z.Vulikh died. He was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery Petersburg.
Among his sons who survived the revolution and civil war, we note Zahar Zakharovich Vulikh (1869-1941), a dean of Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Herzen Pedagogical University in Soviet times; and his grandson - the famous mathematician B.Z.Vulikh (1913-1978).
