Andrei Grigoryevich Bannikov

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Andrei Bannikow (middle, back) as head of the Soviet delegation at the IUCN General Assembly 1975 in Kinshasa, Zaire
Signature of Andrei Bannikow

Andrei Grigorjewitsch Bannikov ( Russian : Андре́й Григо́рьевич Ба́нников, international transcriptions: Andreĭ Grigorʹevich Bannikov or Andrej Grigorʹevič Bannikov ; born April 24, 1915 in Moscow ; † October 17, 1985 in Moscow ) was a Soviet naturalist and naturalist . His main research interests were mammalogy and herpetology . Bannikow made an important contribution to the protection of the saiga , whose population had rapidly declined at the beginning of the 20th century.

Life

Bannikow was the son of a stage actress and a lawyer. From the age of 11 he became a member of the КЮБЗа (Кружок юных биологов зоопарка), a group of young biologists at the Moscow Zoo , which was led by Petr Alexandrowitsch Manteuffel. From 1935 to 1939 he studied at the biological faculty of Moscow State University , where he graduated with a master's degree in 1942 and received his doctorate in 1952 as a candidate for science . In 1941 he volunteered for service at the front. In 1942 he was demobilized as a valuable scientist. From August 1942 to 1947 he worked in Mongolia, where he helped to set up the National University of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar . In 1946 he described the Mongolian saiga ( Saiga tatarica mongolica ) and in 1947 the Gobi-Altai mountain vole ( Alticola barakshin ). From 1947 to 1960 he worked for the Municipal Pedagogical Institute VP Potemkin in Moscow. In 1954, the Russian Academy of Sciences published Bannikov's work on the mammals of the Mongolian People's Republic, which was awarded by the Moscow Society of Naturalists . In the same year he was appointed deputy director of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University. In 1958 his article Data on the fauna and biology of Amphibia and Reptilia in Mongolia appeared on the herpetofauna of Mongolia, which is considered to be the first essential contribution on the reptiles and amphibians of Mongolia.

In 1960 Bannikov became director of the Veterinary Academy in Moscow, an office he held until his death.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Bannikow carried out long-term studies on saigas and wild yaks . In 1958 he completed a project in the Kazakh steppe in which 17,000 saiga antelope fawns were marked. In 1964, he estimated that there were around 3,000 to 8,000 wild yaks that were widely scattered.

In addition to his scientific work, Bannikow was a committed conservationist. In 1961 he was elected a member of the IUCN . From 1963 he headed the working group for Asian wild horses. In 1966 he was the Soviet representative at the 9th General Assembly of the IUCN in Lucerne. In 1972 he was elected Vice President of the IUCN as the first Soviet scientist. This office held six years. In the same year he was awarded the gold medal of the WWF. In 1973 he received the Order of the Golden Ark . In 1975 he headed the Soviet delegation to the 12th General Assembly of the IUCN in Kinshasa , Zaire . In 1978 he became vice chairman of the IUCN Survival Service Commission. In the same year he published the Soviet Union's first Red List of Endangered Species. In 1981 he was elected honorary member at the 15th General Assembly of the IUCN in Christchurch , New Zealand , in recognition of his outstanding contributions to nature conservation .

Dedication names

After Bannikow is agamas -Art Phrynocephalus bannikovi named.

Fonts (selection)

  • Млекопитающие Монгольской народной республики ( The Mammals of the Mongolian People's Republic ), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1954
  • Очерки по биологии амфибий ( Contributions to the Biology of Amphibians ), 1956
  • Материалы по фауне и биологии амфибий и рептилий Монголии // Бюлл. МОИП, Отд. биол. 1958. Т. 63. No. 2: 71-91 ( Data on the fauna and biology of Amphibia and Reptilia in Mongolia ), Bulletin of the Moscow Association of Nature Searchers, Section Biologie 63 (2), 1958, pp. 71-91.
  • On the biology of the kulan Equus hemionus Pallas. Journal of Mammalian, 1959
  • Биология сайгака , 1961 (German translation: Die Saiga-Antilope , Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei Vol. 320, A. Ziemsen Verlag, Wittenberg-Lutherstadt, 1963)
  • VG Heptner, AA Nasimovic, AG Bannikow: The mammals of the Soviet Union, Vol. 1: Articulate ungulates and unpaired ungulates. Fischer, Jena, 1966.
  • До того как умрет природа , 1968 (Russian translation of the work Avant que Nature meure (German: Nature in Danger) by Jean Dorst )
  • Articles about the yak, the screw goat and the saiga in Grzimek's animal life , 1972
  • Contribution Die Saigaantilope für Wildlife '77 by Nigel Sitwell (ed.), 1977
  • Wild camels in Mongolia. Oryx, 1975, pp. 13-12
  • Красная книга СССР. Редкие и находящиеся под угрозой исчезновения виды животных и растений ( Red Data Book of the USSR: rare and endangered species of animals and plants ). Moscow: Lesnaya promyshlennost, 1978.
  • Red Data Book of Russian SSR , 1983

literature

  • Andrei Bannikov In: IUCN Bulletin, Volume 17, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1986, p. 41
  • Ilja Sergejewitsch Darewski & Kraig Adler: In Memoriam: Andrei Grigoryevich Bannikov (1915–1985) In: Herpetological Review 18 (2), June 1987, pp. 24–25
  • Kraig Adler: Contributions to the History of Herpetology, Society for the study of amphibians and reptiles , 1989, ISBN 0-91698-419-2 , p. 124

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personal data
SURNAME Bannikow, Andrei Grigoryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Банников, Андре́й Григо́рьевич (Cyrillic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet zoologist and conservationist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Russia
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1985
Place of death Moscow , Soviet Union