Sergey Paramonov (entomologist)

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Sergey Jacques Paramonov
Palearctic Bombyliidae
 (1940)

Sergey Jacques Paramonov

entomologist, specializing on flies (Diptera), of which described about 700 species and subspecies. Paramonov published over 185 scientific articles, some of which were published posthumously.[3]

Spellings of the name and pseudonym

In his first article, that was written in the Russian Empire in the Pre-reform Russian orthography [ru], his name was given as С. Я. Парамоновъ and translated into English as S. I. Paramonov.[4] In articles written in Ukrainian language he signed as С. Парамонов[5] or С. Я. Парамонов,[6] the same as in Russian language,[7] in German language he used spelling of his name S. J. Paramonow.[8]

When he arrived in

gravestone
is written in this way.

Sergey Paramonov signed his works in Russian about the ancient history of the East Slavs and literature writings with the pseudonym Сергей Лесной - Sergey Lesnoy.

Biography

Early life

Sergey Jacques Paramonov was born on 4 November 1894 in

serfs
.

Sergey's father Yakiv studied at

Bolshevik functionary Alexander Tsiurupa
. At the beginning of 1894 Yakiv Paramonov married Olha Buravchuk and soon their first son Sergey was born in Kharkiv.

In his known letter to the mother Sergey Paramonov mentioned Raikivtsi, where she had nursed him as a toddler. It is probably the village Raikivtsi [uk] in Podolia, but this village is not mentioned in any known S. Paramonov's official documents.

In 1902 the Paramonov family moved into Polotsk, where their second son Oleksiy was born in March 1903. From 1904 to 1908 Yakiv Paramonov worked as a forester in the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate. At that time Sergey was studying at Veliky Ustyug Gymnasium, which was more than 50 kilometres from their home through difficult forest roads.

In 1908 the family moved closer to their home village Yasky. Yakov Paramonov got a job as a forester on the opposite bank of the

uyezd centre at Akkerman Gymnasium, now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
, Ukraine.

Kiev period

Kiev University at the time of Paramonov's study

In 1912 Sergey Paramonov graduated from

Kiev University. He choose Zoology as a main subject, his favourite branch was Ornithology
at that time.

Despite the fact that in all known official documents[

Ukrainian National Revival movement. In 1914 and 1915 Ukrainian organizations were trying to conduct the celebration of Taras Shevchenko's 100 years anniversary, as a result the police arrested some activists. During these events Sergey was detained twice for a month each time. To avoid more serious punishment Paramonov was helped by the privatdozent
Viktor Kazanovsky's protection.

In 1915 Sergey Paramonov published his first scientific note "On the record of the

spotted cuckoo in Bessarabian Government" in the Ornithological Journal. He found, a very rare bird in the Russian Empire, the spotted cuckoo by himself while he was having a holiday at his parents' in Cioburciu
.

In spite of World War I and the collapse of the Russian Empire, Sergey managed to successfully graduate from Kiev University in 1917 and to get a job at the Kiev's station of plant pest control, where Viktor Kazanovsky worked as a director.

dipterology
. In particular he worked on a problem how to use parasitic flies as a natural limit of a number of pest insects.

In September 1918 the Kiev's station of plant pest control was moved to the village of Starosillia near

Hetman of Ukraine Pavlo Skoropadskyi. On 1 May 1919 the academy opened the Ukrainian Zoological Museum [uk]. The biologist Mykola Kashchenko [uk] was a museum director and the collection manager was the entomologist Volodymyr Karavaiev [uk
].

After the

Soviet authorities did not recognise it. Sergey Paramonov was mentioned as a single person
in all Soviet documents.

The Ukrainian Academy of Sciences building in 1930 where the Zoological Museum was located.

In 1920 Paramonov started working at the Zoolofical Museum of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He donated to the museum his own collection of more than 12 thousand copies of the

Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. He met with his colleagues, entomologists Günther Enderlein and Erich Martin Hering
, there.

In 1930 the

evolutionist Ivan Schmalhausen became its first director. Paramonov started working as an editor-in-chief of the Institute journal. In 1935 he conducted a research in Pryazovia (Sea of Azov coast). In 1938 during the Political repression in the Soviet Union
Sergey's father Yakiv was arrested and executed.

In 1940 Sergey Parmonov wrote and defended the thesis "

Palearctic Bombyliidae", thus he earned the Doctor of Sciences
in Biology, soon he was appointed as a director of the Zoological Museum.

On 19 September 1941

Ukrainian opera house, the Academy of Science, and others by pointing Germans to places where Bolsheviks had laid explosives to blow the opera house up.[12]

Paramonov was going on working at the Zoological Museum though he stopped holding the director post. Germans appointed the zoologist

Karl E. Schedl was working at the Ukrainian Zoological Museum too. Germans decided to evacuate the museum because of the Soviet advance, so Nazis declared museum exhibits as war trophies and sent them to Poznań
.

Emigration

One of the Paramonov's objects of study - the family Tachinidae

In September 1943 Sergey Paramonov had to accompany exhibits of the

Nazi concentration camp near Munden,[13] However, the German Red Cross
has not proved it. When the allied forces captured this part of Germany, Paramonov went to Paris.

In June 1945 he arrived in Paris. Here Paramonov was in a difficult position because he did not have a livelihood. He wrote letters to his friends-scientists for help to find an appropriate position corresponding to his knowledge and qualifications. Theodosius Dobzhansky offered him a place at his laboratory in the United States to study drosophilid taxonomy. Another Sergey's friend the entomologist Boris Uvarov asked the chief of CSIRO Alexander John Nicholson about vacancies in Australia. In fact, after André Léon Tonnoir's death in 1940,[14] CSIRO was looking for an experienced entomologist-taxonomist, so in October 1946 Paramonov was offered to apply for a job at CSIRO. While there were being bureaucratic formalities, he left for London to study Australian diptera at the British Museum.

In March 1947, Sergey Paramonov came to Australia.

Soviet spy. After thorough consideration, it was decided to keep the position at CSIRO for Paramonov, but to restrict him the access to certain areas in Australia for national security reasons.[16]
Another challenge was English language. Paramonov was not very good at English at first so he continued writing his scientific articles mainly in German in the first few years, thus there were some difficulties to publish them in Australia.

Since his English got better, Paramonov published his first article in Australia about the

Neottiophilidae) (1955), Hirmoneura (Nemestrinidae), Cylindromyia, Saralba (Tachinidae) (1956), Acroceridae (1957), Pyrgotidae (1958) and Leptidea (1962). His last lifetime article was а review of the Lygira (Bombyliidae) species in 1967. After his death, an article about the family Tachinidae was published in 1968. He also wrote small articles for the "Notes on Australian Diptera".[17][18]

Sergey Paramonov took an active part in the Ukrainian community life. He was a parishioner of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. He wrote articles for Ukrainian emigrant magazines, mostly about science and religion, which he signed as Serhiy Paramoniv.

Sergey Lesnoy

The photo of Izenbek's plank in Lesnoy's book - The History of the Russians in an Unperverted Form

Being in Paris in 1945, Sergey Paramonov met the editor of the Russian

naturalist" and signed it as Sergey Lesnoy for some reasons.[20]

The pseudonym Lesnoy may come from his father's job - the forester. The Russian word les (Russian: лес) means a forest.[21]

After writing his first article, the ancient history of the East Slavs became his topic of interest, so while he was living in Australia Paramonov wrote series of compositions about it. The compositions that were written in Russian he signed as Sergey Lesnoy. Besides that he tried himself in literature. His most significant works in Russian were:

  • The Tale of Igor's Campaign. Study in four volumes. To the 150th anniversary of the publication. (Слово о Полку Игореве. Исследование в четырёх томах. К 150-летию со дня опубликования), Paris, 1950–53.
  • Devilry under the
    Lysa Hora
    . (Чертовщина под Лысой горой), Paris, 1952.
  • The history of Rus' people in a not perverted form. (История «руссов» в неизвращенном виде), Paris, Munich, 1953–60.
  • Revision of the basics of the Slavs history. (Пересмотр основ истории славян), Melbourne, 1956
  • Who created ancient Rus': The Slavs or Germanic peoples? (Кто создал древнюю Русь: Славяне или германцы?) Paris, Vozrozhdeniye #108, 1960.
  • Rus', where are you from? (Русь, откуда ты?) Winnipeg, 1962. Rostov-on-Don, 1995.
  • The book of Wles, (Влесова Книга), Winnipeg, 1966.[22] Moscow, 2002.
  • From the distant past of the Slavs. (Из далекого прошлого славян), Melbourne, 1967

The Book of Veles

Main article: Book of Veles

In 1954 Sergey Paramonov received the

Second World War
. Mirolubov claimed that he had managed to copy down some texts of them.

Paramonov was very impressed that information and took from Kurenkov and Mirolubov all available materials about Izenbek's planks. Among other Paramonov gained a photograph of plank 16, there was the only one plank, the quality photo of which had been made. The text of that plank begins with the words: "Влес книгу сію" (Vles the book this). So Paramonov decided to call the whole text of the Izenbek's planks as "Влесова Книга" or "The Book of Wles" in English.

The tomb of the scientist in the Woden Cemetery

Initially Sergey Paramonov believed in the

Slavic neopaganism
movements.

Paramonov needed to prove the Book of Veles authenticity so he sent all his researches and all materials, he had, to the

Academy of Sciences of the USSR under the mediation of the University of Melbourne
. The Soviet scientists verdict was: "The Book of Veles is a literary forgery".

Death

During the last ten years of his life Sergey Paramonov severely suffered from

slavist Boris Unbegaun in September 1967, who strongly criticised Paramonov's investigations into the Book of Veles, his health deteriorated significantly. On 18 September 1967 Sergey's younger brother Oleksiy died in Bordon, England. On 19 September Sergey Paramonov was taken to a Canberra
hospital where he died on 22 September 1967, in the age of 72.

Sergey Paramonov was buried in the Woden Cemetery. There are two inscriptions in English and Ukrainian on his gravestone:

Dr. PARAMONIV Here rests in God Dr Serhiy Yakowych Paramoniv. Born 4.11.1894 died 22.9.1967. Rest in peace dear friend as Australian soil is to be a bed for your body. Your friends G. Horilchenko & S. Mandryk. Laid to rest by

the very reverend
A. Tedorowych

Before his death Sergey Paramonov made a will according to which he left all his savings for the

St. Nicholas Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church construction in Canberra.[23]

After some time the St Nicholas church became a core of the Ukrainian Orthodox Centre,[24] where the Memorial to victims [uk] of the 1932-1933 enforced famine-genocide in Ukraine was erected in 1985.[25]

Sources

  1. ^ Liepa, Zenta (1927-1987) - People and organisations - Trove
  2. ^ The other ID are unknown for this person
  3. ^ Odyssey of Ukrainian Entomologist Sergey Paramonov // Valery Korneyev, I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology
    Ukrainian: Корнєєв В. О. Одисея українського ентомолога. До 120-річчя від дня народження Сергія Яковича Парамонова
  4. Spotted cuckoo in Bessarabian
    Government. // Google Drive
  5. ^ 1921 Paramonov Anthrax occultus.pdf - Google Drive
  6. ^ Paramonow 1936 Diptera Mariupol.pdf - Google Drive
  7. ^ Paramonov 1924 On the endangered birds of Dnestr.pdf - Google Drive
  8. ^ Paramonov 1924 Zwei neue Bombyliden-Arten (Diptera) Transkaspien.pdf - Google Drive
  9. ^ Paramonov1966 Notes XLI-XLIII.pdf - Google Drive
  10. ^ Viktor Kazanovsky // Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine
    Ukrainian: Казановський Віктор Іванович // Енциклопедія Сучасної України
  11. ^ Evdokia Reshetnik, Євдокія Решетник (1903–1990) - Google Scholar Citations
  12. ^ 1994 Reshetnik Ukrainske Slovo //Google Docs
    Ukrainian: Євдокія Решетник // Моя Оленіана
  13. ^ A. I. Shapoval // Manuscripts and books heritage of Ukraine, 2014, Vol. 18, pp. 91-112 - The personal collection of Sergey Jacques Paramonov as a source for the research of the biography and scientific activities of the scientist.
    Ukrainian: Шаповал А. І. // Рукописна та книжкова спадщина України, 2014, Вип. 18, С. 91-112 - Особовий фонд Сергія Яковича Парамонова як джерело для дослідження біографії та наукової діяльності вченого
  14. ^ André Léon Tonnoir, Entomologist. // Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand [electronic resource]
  15. ^ National Archives of Australia: SP11/2, STATELESS/PARAMONOV S J, Sergey Jacques Paramonov [Stateless, formerly Russian - arrived Sydney per ASTURIAS, 14 March 1947. Box 192]
  16. ^ National Archives of Australia: A367,C77955, PARAMONOV, Sergey [Sergei] Jacques, Professor - Commonwealth Investigation Service enquiries
  17. ^ Notes on Australian Diptera (XXV): Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Vol 10, No 118
  18. ^ Paramonov S. J. 1955 XVII.—Notes on Australian Diptera (XVI–XIX), Journal of Natural History Series 12, 8:86, 125-14 | Serge Paramoniv - Academia.edu
  19. ^ Mykola Sharleman, the list of publications // I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology
    Ukrainian: СПИСОК ДРУКОВАНИХ ПРАЦЬ М. В. ШАРЛЕМАНЯ // Інститут зоології ім. І.І.Шмальгаузена НАН України, 2004-2009
  20. ^ The Tale of Igor's Campaign from the point of view of a naturalist
    Russian: Сергей Лесной. Слово о полку Игореве с точки зрения натуралиста
  21. ^ Translations of «лес» (Ru-En) on ABBYY Lingvo Live
  22. ^ The book of Wles
    Russian: Сергей Лесной (Парамонов). Влесова книга
  23. ISSN 2078-9653
    .
  24. ^ The Ukrainian Orthodox Centre | Canberra Things to Do
  25. ^ Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church - Google Maps

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