Sysoev, Vsevolod Petrovich

Member of the Council of Honorary Citizens of Khabarovsk , Professor Emeritus, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, local history writer, Laureate of the honorary badge of the Government of the Khabarovsk Territory "For Merits" named after N. N. Muravyov-Amursky .

Vsevolod Petrovich Sysoev was born on November 24, 1911 in Kharkov. Childhood passed in the Crimea . Young Vsevolod read books about famous travelers and naturalists, graduated from high school in Yalta . In 1932, on a Komsomol trip, he arrived in Moscow, entered the N. Bauman Institute , but he did not like the “gloomy, devoid of fresh air audience”, and soon he transferred to the All-Union Zootechnical Institute of Fur and Raw Materials , where in 1937 received a diploma of a hunting biologist. In the fall of 1938, having completed work on the Zeya expedition, Sysoev went on an expedition to the NKZ of the USSR in the Far East, which was engaged in the survey of the BAM construction zone.

In the summer of 1939 V.P. Sysoev was appointed head of the hunting department at the Khabarovsk Territory Executive Committee. In this position he found the Great Patriotic War . Vsevolod Petrovich received the position of head of the quartermaster service as part of the 97th medical battalion of the Far Eastern Front. He was awarded the medal " For the victory over Japan ."

A hunter by profession, a naturalist with a broad outlook by vocation, Sysoev initiated the work on acclimatization and resettlement of game animals. Thanks to him, in the vast expanses of the Far East, from Anyui to Kolyma , sable , beaver , mink , and muskrat appeared . In 1955, Vsevolod Petrovich was forced to leave the management of the hunting economy. He became a teacher and then dean of the Faculty of Geography of the Khabarovsk Pedagogical Institute , took up a deeper study of the nature and problems associated with the living of the beast in the Far Eastern taiga. He wrote and published a number of scientific papers, popular essays, articles. Together with students, they examined the basins of the Amur and Mokrokhon , Ulya and Olchon rivers . He walked along the unpaved paths of the northern regions of the region. As a result of these expeditions, the book "Nature and the economy of the Kur-Urmia region" appeared.

A special page in life is the Khabarovsk Museum of Local Lore , whose director Sysoyev was from 1960 to 1972. His museum activity began in 1960 at the desk of V.K. Arsenyev , the idol of his childhood. Vsevolod Petrovich did a lot so that a corner appeared in the museum dedicated to this famous traveler and explorer; personal belongings belonging to Arsenyev and a true account of the 1927 expedition to Soviet Harbor were preserved.

The museum stores and displays many exhibits delivered here by the Sysoev, including the rarest bird, the scaly merganser , obtained by him personally, and the river shell with a large pearl. Under Sysoyev, the museum gained a second life, in 1967 he was awarded the title of "The Best Museum of the USSR." In the same year, Vsevolod Petrovich was admitted to the USSR Writers Union .

He was familiar with such famous dynasties of Amur tigers as the Cherepanovs and Bogachevs. He personally took part in the capture of over 70 tigers. All capture was carried out strictly by state order and was carried out with the help of slings and ropes. He repeatedly described this technology in his books.

Being an active and vital person, Vsevolod Petrovich conducted active public work until the last days. He was a frequent guest among schoolchildren and students.

Death

Vsevolod Sysoev died in Khabarovsk on April 7, 2011, at the 100th year of his life. He was buried in the Central Cemetery.

• "Hunting in the Khabarovsk Territory";
• "Hunting in the Far Eastern taiga";
• "Taiga";
• "Tigrolov";
• "Notes of the Far Eastern naturalist (ranger)";
• "Amba";
• "In the northern jungle";
• "In the Far Eastern taiga";
• Amur Hunters;
• "Amazing beasts";
• “Golden Rigma” Vol. 1, “The Last Leopard” Vol. 2
• "Master of Small Khingan";
• “Journey through the museum”,
• "Favorites" in 3 t.

Including, in collaboration with V. Klipel :

• "In the mountains of Badzhal";
• “Behind the Black Sable”;
• "Light jets of Amguni."

Over the years, awarded:

• Order of Honor (2002) ^[1]
• honorary title "Honored Worker of Culture of Russia";
• certificates of honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR and the Board of the Union of Writers of the USSR for literary work, the Khabarovsk Regional Duma for the conservation of nature;
• Order of the Patriotic War II degree and medal "For the victory over Japan";
• title "Honorary Citizen of the city of Khabarovsk";
• Governor's lifetime scholarship for his contribution to the development of the culture of the region;
• the biography is placed in the World Encyclopedia Britannica along with biographies of other prominent people on the planet.

For many years of contribution to the preservation of the Far Eastern nature, the name of Vsevolod Petrovich Sysoev was assigned to the Priamursky zoo and one of the Sikhote-Alin mountain ranges.

Klipel Vladimir Ivanovich

• Vsevolod Sysoev
• Vsevolod Petrovich Sysoev Foundation
• Vsevolod Sysoev
• http://www.zoosad27.ru/about.html