Boris Mikhailovich Popov (1913—1942) - Soviet and Ukrainian zoologist . Author of about 20 scientific articles. One of the authors (posthumously) of the first issue of the first volume of the publication Fauna of Ukraine . He studied the fauna of birds and mammals, feeding of owls, the distribution of rare mammalian species, the migration of animals. The most famous publications of the scientist are bat research.
| Boris M. Popov | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | March 14, 1916 |
| Place of Birth | Sumy |
| Date of death | January 20, 1942 (25 years) |
| Place of death | Long |
| A country |  Russian Empire →  the USSR |
| Scientific field | zoology |
Biography
Born December 21, 1913 in Sumy in the family of an agronomist. He graduated from agricultural college.
In 1930 he began working at the Kiev Agrobiostation in the circle of young naturalists. In the same year he was admitted to the laboratory for the study of rodents of the entomology department of the Kiev Agricultural Experimental Station, where he worked successfully until 1932. During this period, he participated in a number of expeditions in Kiev , Chernihiv , Kharkiv , Vinnitsa and other regions of the Ukrainian SSR , which were devoted to the study of harmful rodents.
In 1931 he began working as a zoologist for an integrated expedition in the area of construction of the Dnieper . In these expeditions, he collected numerous factual material on the fauna of mammals and birds, especially rodents, which enriched the funds of the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and is still widely used in a number of zoological works.
In 1933–1935 he worked at the Plodyagodny Institute (Kiev) as a zoologist, and also participated in a number of scientific expeditions, including to Odessa, then Kamenetz-Podolsk and Zhytomyr regions.
In 1936 he was accepted as a junior researcher at the Zoological Museum of the Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (now the Zoological Museum of the NNPM of the NASU). He studied at the Kiev State University, worked on his thesis.
During 1938–1939, he worked in the Mountainous Reserve of the Academy of Sciences and, based on the results of these studies, published a review “Materials on the mammalian fauna of the mountainous reserve and its environs” (1940).
Since 1940, he became interested in the history of the fauna of Ukraine and began working in the Department of Paleozoology of the Institute of Zoology (now the Department of Paleozoology of the National Museum of Natural History). He conducted a number of paleontological excavations in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions.
In 1941, he finished work on his main work, “The Bats of the Ukrainian SSR,” which he was supposed to defend as a dissertation for a PhD degree in biological sciences, but this work was not defended or published due to the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War . This work in a certain processing was included as an integral part (the section on bats) of the first volume of the publication Fauna of the Ukrainian SSR.
In 1941, mobilized into the army. He died on January 20, 1942 near the Dolgoe Popasnyansky District Farm (now the Slavyanoserbsky District) of the then Voroshilovgrad Oblast . The exact burial place is unknown, there are no war grave signs in the village.
Major Works
- Popov B.M. Mala Ryasonіzhka in Kyivschina // Ukrainian Ukrainian Mislivets and Ribalka. - 1931. - № 7.
- Popov B. M. Sipuh and the “Concha-Zaspa” reserve // Materials for the district vivchennya of other regions and other countries. - Kiev, 1932. - Vip. 1. - p. 81-91.
- Popov B.M. Mamaіologіchni notatki. І. Leyselora Evening Party (Nyctalus leisleri Kuhl, Chiroptera) in USRR. Ii. Sign of lisovo ї mishіvka (Sicista montana Mehely) in USRR / / Zrіrnik Prats Zoologіchnogo Museum. - 1936. - № 18. - p. 191-196.
- B. Popov. Mamologichesky zamіtki. About new mіstsya sign of lissovogo іishіvki in Ukraine // Zbіrnik prats zoologіchnogo museum of the Academy of Sciences URSR. - 1939. - N 21.
- Popov B.M.Materiali to the ornofauna of the rapist part of r. Dnipro // Zbіrnik Prats Zoologіchnogo Museum. - 1937. - № 20. - p. 41-64.
- BM Popov. On the question of the geographical distribution of some small mammals in the Ukrainian SSR // Zoological journal. - 1939. - Volume 18, Issue 2. - p. 331-335.
- BM Popov. On seasonal migrations of bats // Nature. - 1941. - № 2. - p. 87-90.
- Popov B.M. Materials before the fauna of the mountain reserve of the Goriste reserve and the next outskirts // Nature of the reserve of the Academy of Sciences URSR Goriste. - 1941. - Vip. 1. - p. 27-40.
- Abelentsev V.I., Popov B.M. A row of hands and teeth, Chiroptera, abo kazhani // Fauna of Ukraine. - Kiev: View of the Academy of Sciences of the URSR, 1956. - Volume 1: Ssavtsi, vipusk 1. - p. 229-446.
Sources
- Zagorodnyuk І. V. Zoological Collections of Yak Dzherelo Biography of Information: Before Іstorії doslіzhen Anatoliya Argіpula and Boris Popov // Practical Nutrition of Natural Museology: Materials of the III Sciences-Pract. conf. (24-25 of Zhovtnya 2013, Kyiv). - Kyiv: NNPM of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2013. - p. 15-16. - ISBN 978-966-02-7001-5 .
- Mazurmovich B. M. Rozvitok zoology in Ukraine. - Kiev: View of the University of Kiev, 1972. - 229 p.
- Pіdoplichko І. G. Pam'yatі B. M. Popova (Until the 10th day of death) // Zbіrnik prats zoologіchnyy museum. - 1952. - № 25. - p. 96-97.
- Zagorodnyuk І. Boris Popov and the ears of a chiropterologist in Ukraine // The international status of chasans in Ukraine / For ed. І. Zagorodnyuk. - Kiev: Ukrainian Patriarchate Partnership, 2001. - P. 173. - (Novitates Theriologicae. Pars 6).