Leo Surenovich Stepanyan (March 19, 1931, Yerevan - February 16, 2002, Moscow ) - Soviet and Russian ornithologist, leading bird taxonomy in the USSR and Russia at the end of the 20th century.
| Leo Surenovich Stepanyan | |
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| Date of Birth | March 19, 1931 |
| Place of Birth | Yerevan |
| Date of death | February 16, 2002 (70 years old) |
| Place of death | Moscow |
| A country |  the USSR  Russia |
| Scientific field | Ornithology |
| Place of work | MGPI , IPEE RAS |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University (1955) |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Biological Sciences |
| Systematic wildlife | |
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The researcher who described a number of zoological taxa . The names of these taxa (to indicate authorship) are accompanied by the designation " Stepanyan " . |
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Biography
Born March 19, 1931 in Yerevan . Father - doctor Suren Nikolaevich Stepanyan, mother - Julia Kuzminichna nee? Soon the family moved to Essentuki . In 1950 he graduated from high school in Essentuki and entered the Faculty of Biology and Soil of Moscow State University . He studied at the Department of Vertebrate Zoology with G.P. Dementiev , V. G. Heptner , E. S. Ptushenko .
In 1955 he graduated from Moscow State University , for two years he worked as an employee of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University and a guide there [1] . From 1957 to 1975 he taught at the Department of Zoology of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute. V.I. Lenin. Since 1958, an assistant to this department [1] . For some time he worked at the Institute of Geography [1] . He participated and led ornithological expeditions to the Tien Shan and Pamir, to Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, to the Urals, Sakhalin and the Caucasus. In 1962, at the Academic Council of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University, he defended his thesis "Ecological and geographical analysis of the avifauna of the Terskey-Ala-Tau (Tien Shan) ridge" [1] . From 1961 to 1973 he had a permanent job in the ornithology department of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University [1] .
In 1975 he moved to the Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Animal Ecology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now - IPEE RAS). He participated there in expeditions to Mongolia, Vietnam and North Korea and on the scientific ship Callisto along the islands of the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
In 1990, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Sub-species and double species in the avifauna of the USSR" [1] .
An active collector of carcasses of birds, had a unique private collection, which after the death of L. S. Stepanyan entered the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University [2] .
Member of the editorial board of the Zoological Journal and the yearbook Ornithology. Member of the All-Union Ornithological Committee, The International Committee on Ornithological Nomenclature, Council of the All-Union Ornithological Society, headed the Library Council of the IEME.
The author of about 230 scientific papers, including 6 books. Described 14 new subspecies of birds [3] , some of which were later recognized as species.
Family
- Mother - Julia Kuzminichna nee?
- Wife - Elena Nikolaevna Stepanyan (nee Lebedeva, born 05/10/1938)
- Son - Igor Leo,
- Brother - Valery Surenovich Stepanyan.
Taxa described by L. S. Stepanyan
- Hyrcanic gaiter ( Poecile hyrcanus ), originally described as a subspecies of P. lugubris )
- Sakhalin Cricket ( Locustella amnicola Stepanyan, 1972)
- The reed community of Polivanov ( Paradoxornis heudei polivanovi ) is also considered as an independent species. Described in honor of the ornithologist V. M. Polivanov .
- Passer ammodendri nigricans Stepanyan, 1961
- Accipiter gularis sibiricus Stepanyan, 1959
Bibliography
- Stepanyan L. S. Composition and distribution of birds of the fauna of the USSR: Non-sparrow. Non-Passeriformes. - M .: Nauka , 1975 .-- 372 p. - 2700 copies.
- Stepanyan L. S. Composition and distribution of birds of the fauna of the USSR: Passeriformes. Passeriformes - M .: Nauka , 1978.- 392 p.
- Stepanyan L. S. Supraspecies and twin species in the avifauna of the USSR / Ed. ed. V. D. Ilyichev . - M .: Nauka , 1983 .-- 296 p.
- Stepanyan L. S. Birds of Southwestern Oceania: Based on materials from the 6th and 12th voyages of the Callisto research vessel. - M .: Nauka , 1986 .-- 120 p. - 1550 copies.
- Stepanyan L.S. Synopsis of the ornithological fauna of the USSR / Ed. ed. Acad. V.Ye. Sokolov . - M .: Nauka , 1990 .-- 728 p. - ISBN 5-02-005300-7 .
- Stepanyan L. S. Birds of Vietnam: According to the research of 1978-1990 / RAS, Institute of Ecology and Evolution. A. N. Severtsova. - M .: Nauka , 1995 .-- 448 p. - ISBN 5-02-004763-5 . - Bibliogr .: p. 419-429.
- Stepanyan L. S. Systematic catalog of the author’s private ornithological collection / Ed. ed. C. Z. Dorzhiev . - Ulan-Ude: Publishing house Buryat. University, 2001 .-- 108 p. - ISBN 5-85213-417-1 .
- Stepanyan L.S. Synopsis of the ornithological fauna of Russia and adjacent territories (within the borders of the USSR as a historical area) . - M .: IKC "Akademkniga", 2003. - 808 p. - ISBN 5-94628-093-7 .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lyubarsky G. Yu. History of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University. Ideas, people, structures. M .: KMK, 2009.744 s.
- ↑ 70 years since the birth of Alexander Alekseevich Baranov (1944), doctor of biological sciences, professor of KSPU im. V.P. Astafyeva
- ↑ 10 years since the death of L.S. Stepanyan