Bialynitskii-Birulia, Aleksei Andreevich

Bialynitskii-Birulia, Aleksei Andreevich 

Born Oct. 24, 1864, in Orsha District, Mogilev Province; died June 18, 1937, in Leningrad. Soviet zoologist. Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Professor at Leningrad University; senior zoologist and director of the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Bialynitskii-Birulia took part in an expedition to Spitsbergen in 1899, in an Arctic expedition directed by E. V. Toll’ (1900-03), and several other expeditions. He studied coelenterates, worms, crustaceans, myriopods, arachnids, birds, and mammals. He helped to form a standing committee in the Zoological Museum for the study of malarial mosquitoes; he also helped to organize an expedition to Middle Asia in 1928 that initiated comprehensive expeditionary research in the USSR on parasitology.

WORKS

“Ocherki iz zhizni ptits poliarnogo poberezh’ia Sibiri.” Zap. AN po fiziko-matematic heskomu otdeleniiu, 1907, vol. 18, no. 2.
“Falangi.” In Fauna SSSR: Paukoobraznye, vol. 1, fasc. 3, Moscow-Leningrad, 1938.