Education
Leiden University.
Leiden University.
Zuyev participated in the academy"s expeditions (1768-1774) under the command of Peter Simon Pallas. In 1781-1782 he traveled to the region of the Bug and lower Dniepr rivers, which he described in the book Travel Notes From Saint St. Petersburg to Kherson in 1781 and 1782 (1787). He wrote a number of works on zoology, chiefly on the taxonomy of fish.
Zuyev was the author of the first Russian manual on natural science, Outline of Natural History (parts 1–2, 1786).
Russian Academy of Sciences.