Nikolai Alexejewitsch Sarudny
Nikolai Alexeyevich Zarudny ( Russian Николай Алексеевич Зарудный ., Scientific transliteration : Nikolaj Alekseevic Zarudnyj; born September 13 . Jul / 25. September 1859 . Greg in Grjakowo in Kharkov Governorate ; † 17th March 1919 in Tashkent ) was a Russian zoologist who did significant pioneering work in the study of the avifauna of Central Asia . 238 bird taxa were described by him, about 130 mammals , reptiles , fish , arthropods and mollusks were named after him.
Parts of his important collections can now be found primarily in institutions in the former Soviet Union such as the Russian Academy of Sciences or the University of Tashkent, but also in other international museums such as the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum .
Sarudny has received several awards for his services from the Russian Geographical Society .
Life
Sarudny was born in Grjakowo , today's Hrjakowe ( Ukrainian Грякове ) in the Ukrainian Poltava Oblast . At the age of 11, Sarudny entered a military school in Saint Petersburg and at the age of 20 became a teacher of natural history at the military school in Orenburg . From 1892 to 1906 he taught at the military school in Pskov and until 1919 in Tashkent.
In 1888 Sarudny published his first book, an investigation of the avifauna in the Orenburg governorate . He summarized the results of five expeditions to the Caspi region , northern Persia, Bukhara and Xiva between 1884 and 1892 in a work on the bird life of the Caspi region.
Between 1896 and 1904 he led further expeditions to Persia, where he first toured the Birdschand region and the surrounding sandy deserts and the Sistan Basin . Later a 4500 km circumnavigation of the Iranian highlands followed . Over 3000 birds and around 50,000 insects were collected.
From 1906 his studies focused on the region around Tashkent, until 1912 he made further trips to the Tian Shan , the Ferghana Valley , along the Syrdarja and in the Kyzylkum . In 1914 he noticed the significant changes to the shoreline of the Aral Sea that had occurred since an expedition by the researcher Lev Semjonowitsch Berg in 1902.
At the age of 59, Sarudny died in Tashkent in 1919 from accidental poisoning. He could no longer complete his last work on the bird world of Turkestan .
supporting documents
- Natalia Ananjeva: Zarudniĭ, Nikolaĭ Alekseevitch in the online edition of Encyclopaedia Iranica , April 7, 2008, [1] , accessed February 8, 2011
- Article Nikolai Alexejewitsch Sarudny in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
literature
- Uwe Alex & Jevgenij Šergalin: Biographies of Eastern European ornithologists (17): Nikolaj Aleksejevič Zarudnyj (1859-1919) - avifaunist and taxonomist of Trans-Caspian, Central Asia and Persia , Ornithologische Mitteilungen 2015, 67th vol. (Issue 5/6): p. 155– 160.
Individual evidence
- ↑ LM Balan: Types of new descriptions of the NA Zarudny collection , Vertebrate animals of Central Asia (collected articles devoted to the 60th anniversary of the Academician of Uzbek SSR, TZ Zakhidov). Tashkent 1966, pp. 107-121
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sarudny, Nikolai Alexejewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Николай Алексеевич Зарудный (Russian); Nikolaj Alekseevič Zarudnyj (scientific transliteration) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grjakovo |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1919 |
| Place of death | Tashkent |