Career

He was born in Smila, Ukraine, though most of his career was spent working in, and conducting expeditions from, the ornithological department of the Zoological Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. His publications include:

1939, 1941 – Fauna of the Anadyr area

1954, 1960 – The birds of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics

1972–1973 – The birds of the Chukchi Peninsula and Wrangel Island

1973 – Fauna of birds of non-polar parts of the Northern Urals

1975 – The birds of zonal steppes and deserts of Central Asia.