Fyodor Khaskhachikh

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Fyodor Ignatyevich Khaskhachikh (Russian: Фёдор Игна́тьевич Хасха́чих) was a Soviet philosopher and dean of philosophy at the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature, and History. He was born on March 21, 1907, and died on November 5, 1942, during World War II.

Khaskhachikh focused on epistemology, the study of knowledge, and explored its problems within the framework of dialectical materialism. He earned the degree of Candidate of Sciences and was working on a dissertation for the Doctor of Sciences when he left academia to join the Red Army after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. He died serving on the Kalinin Front in 1942.

Selected works:
- O poznovayemosti mira (On the Knowability of the World). Moscow, 1946.
- German translation: Über die Erkennbarkeit der Welt (1949).