Nikolai Zarudny

Nikolai Alekseyvich Zarudny (spelled Sarudny in old works in English) (1859 - March 1919) was a Russian explorer and zoologist who studied the fauna, especially the birds of Central Asia. He was born in Gryakovo, in Ukraine. He wrote his first ornithology book in 1896 and made five expeditions in the Caspian region from 1884 and 1892. He led other expeditions to Persia supported by the Russian Geographic Society and the St. Petersburg Zoological Institute. He collected nearly 3140 specimens of birds and 50,000 insects. For his work the Russian Geographical Society awarded him the Przhevalsky Medal. In 1918 he set up a museum at the University of Tashkent. While at Tashkent, his last work on the ornithology of Turkestan region was not completed as he died of accidental poisoning. He published 218 monographs in the course of his life and named many species.

References

• Bobrinksy N.A. (1940) Nikolai Alekseevich Zarudny, a zoologist and traveler. (1859-1919). Moscow, 72 pp. [In Russian]
• Johansen, Hans (1952) Ornithology in Russia. Ibis 94(1):1-48 doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1952.tb01786.x

External links

• Nikolai Zarudny Entry at Encyclopedia Iranica
• National University of Uzbekistan