Grigory Bey-Bienko

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Grigory Yakovlevich Bey-Bienko (

entomologist who specialized in Orthoptera.[1]

Life and education

Bey-Bienko was born in

insects.[1] He graduated from the Omsk Institute of Agriculture, having made a list of local acridoidea while still a student.[1]

During the

Second World War, he took part in the Siege of Leningrad, before being evacuated to Perm.[1]

Career

Bey-Bienko moved to

He was a Stalin Prize winner (1952), corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (starting in 1953) and chairman of the USSR Entomology Society (starting in 1966).[2]

He was one of the editors of Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR (Leningrad, Nauka; published in English by Amerind Publishing, New Delhi) and Fauna of the European Part of the USSR (Leningrad, Nauka; published in English by Amerind Publishing, New Delhi).[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Professor G. Ya. Bei-Bienko". Nature. 236: 247–248. 1972. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "Bey-Bienko, Grigory Yakovlevich". The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian).

Selected works

  • Bey-Bienko G. Ya., 1954: Insecta: Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae. Fauna SSSR. 388 pp.
  • Bey-Bienko G. Ya., 1962 Об общей классификации насекомых (On the general classification of insects). Энтомологическое обозрение (Entomol. Rev. URSS) 49 (1): 6–21