Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (Russian: ????´ ???´????? ?????´?, August 1 [O.S.
July 20] 1870 – March 20, 1932) was a Russian and Soviet biologist who specialized in the field of artificial insemination and the interspecific hybridization of animals.
He is famous for inseminating three female chimpanzees with human sperm (with no result) as a part of his controversial attempts to create a human-ape hybrid.