L. S. Stepanyan
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Leo Surenovich Stepanyan (Лео Суренович Степанян) (19 March 1931 – 16 February 2002) was an Armenia
n ornithologist, best known as the author of the Conspectus of the ornithological fauna of the USSR
, a taxonomic work in Russian on birds of the Soviet Union
.
Leo was born in Yerevan
on 19 March 1931, the son of Suren, a family physician, and Julia. In 1950 he graduated from Leo High School in Yessentuki and then moved to Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he met G. P. Dementieev and other ornithologists. After his graduation in 1955 he spent two years at the Zoological Museum of the university (Zoological Museum of the Moscow State Lomonosov University – ZMMU), where he met ornithologists from all over the USSR who came to examine the collection. From 1957 he taught zoology and under the guidance of S. P. Naumov and A. V. Mikheev, he and some students made expeditions to the Tien Shan, the Pamirs, the Urals and other regions to collect bird specimens. He published several papers on the results of these collection trips. In 1975 he was invited by the Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals and became part of the scientific team that went on the research vessel "Callisto" to the islands of the southwest Pacific. He also made expeditions to Mongolia, Vietnam and North Korea.
His major works included the Birds of Vietnam and the Conspectus of the ornithological fauna of the USSR (1990).
He died on 16 February 2002.
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
n ornithologist, best known as the author of the Conspectus of the ornithological fauna of the USSR
Conspectus of the ornithological fauna of the USSR
Conspectus of the ornithological fauna of the USSR is a 1991 Russian language publication by ornithologist L. S. Stepanyan....
, a taxonomic work in Russian on birds of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
.
Leo was born in Yerevan
Yerevan
Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...
on 19 March 1931, the son of Suren, a family physician, and Julia. In 1950 he graduated from Leo High School in Yessentuki and then moved to Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he met G. P. Dementieev and other ornithologists. After his graduation in 1955 he spent two years at the Zoological Museum of the university (Zoological Museum of the Moscow State Lomonosov University – ZMMU), where he met ornithologists from all over the USSR who came to examine the collection. From 1957 he taught zoology and under the guidance of S. P. Naumov and A. V. Mikheev, he and some students made expeditions to the Tien Shan, the Pamirs, the Urals and other regions to collect bird specimens. He published several papers on the results of these collection trips. In 1975 he was invited by the Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals and became part of the scientific team that went on the research vessel "Callisto" to the islands of the southwest Pacific. He also made expeditions to Mongolia, Vietnam and North Korea.
His major works included the Birds of Vietnam and the Conspectus of the ornithological fauna of the USSR (1990).
He died on 16 February 2002.