Elizabeth Kozlova

Elizabeth Vladimirovna Kozlova (19 August 1892 – 10 February 1975) was a Russian ornithologist.

Kozlova, the daughter of a physician, was born in Krasnoe Selo, a suburban village south of, and now part of, Saint Petersburg. She married Colonel Pyotr Kozlov, a well-known explorer 29 years her senior.

Career

From 1923–1926 she took part as the professional ornithologist in an expedition, organised by the Russian Geographical Society and led by her husband, to Mongolia. She returned to Mongolia in 1929 and 1930 to collect and to conduct further bird studies, her research resulting in the publication in 1930 of Birds of South-western Transbaikalia, Northern Mongolia and the Central Gobi, for which she was awarded the Geographical Society’s Silver Medal.

Kozlova was based at the Department of Ornithology in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad) from 1932 to 1975. There she produced the monographs Avifauna of the Tibetan Plateau, its Genetic Relationships and History in 1952, and The Birds of Zonal Steppes and Deserts of Central Asia in 1975. She also published many papers on avian taxonomy and phylogeny as well as writing extensive sections of The Birds of the USSR (1951–1953) and the series Fauna of the USSR.

References

Sources

• Mearns, Barbara; Mearns, Richard (1998). The Bird Collectors. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 359–361. ISBN 0-12-487440-1.
• "Department of Ornithology - History". Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2010-08-09.