May 11 – 130 years since the birth of Anatoly Fedyushin, a famous scientist in the field of zoology, ornithology, hunting and nature conservation.
Anatoly Fedyushin was born in the city of Slutsk, Minsk province (now Minsk region). Graduated from the Natural History Department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University. The publication "Ornithological Bulletin" published the first article by student Fedyushin "On some birds of the Minsk province" (1912). After graduation, he worked as a teacher at the Pinsk real school, studied the birds of Polesie.
In 1921-1933 he was a teacher, the first head of the Department of Zoology of the Belarusian State University (BSU), took part in the creation of the Zoological Museum. For some time he taught at the Belarusian Institute of Agriculture and Forestry in Minsk (now the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy). In 1927, he became a professor at the Belarusian State University, took part in organizing the Institute of Belarusian Culture, was its employee, and later headed the sector of zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR.
On behalf of the State Planning Committee of the BSSR, he was engaged in the stock and distribution of hunting and industrial animals in the republic, was the organizer and participant of complex expeditions to the regions of Belarus. The scientist's work on the preservation and re-acclimatization of the beaver was of great importance.
In 1925, according to his project, the Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve was created. He participated in the I All-Russian (1929) and I All-Union (1933) congresses on nature protection, where he represented the republic, initiated the organization of the Polesie nature reserve. He was deputy chairman of the State Committee for Hunting Affairs under the Council of People's Commissars of the BSSR.
From 1933 to 1972 Anatoly Fedyushina worked as the head of the Department of Zoology and Darwinism at the Omsk Agricultural Institute. In 1938, he became a doctor of biological sciences, was a member of the All-Union Geographical Society, the All-Union Society of Helminthologists at the USSR Academy of Sciences, and was a member of the Commission for Nature Protection at the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1961 he was awarded the Order of Lenin.
The talented scientist has authored more than 200 scientific and popular scientific works on ornithology, zoology, issues of protecting and increasing the resources of hunting fauna.
Information about the scientist, information about his work can be found in the electronic catalog of the National Library of Belarus, the online encyclopedia “Belarus in Persons and Events”, the National Database of Regulatory/Authoritative Records, on the website of the Faculty of Biology of the Belarusian State University and other information resources.
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