Oshanin Vasily Fedorovich

Born in 1844, . initial education in school and at home in Ryazan, . In 1861 he entered the natural history department of physics and mathematics faculty of Moscow University and in 1865 graduated from the course with a degree candidate, in 1869 made a trip abroad, . where he worked in the laboratories of Leuckart, . at Naples Zoological Station and the station at Concarneau, was a teacher of natural sciences at the Moscow orphanage and in the 5-th Moscow gymnasium, in 1872, traveled on behalf of the Ministry of State Property abroad for study and of silk in the same year he became director of the School of sericulture in Turkestan Tashkent, . but with the closure of its (in 1883) consisted of science teachers in the teachers' seminary Turkestan,
. O. made in 1871, traveled to Sukhumi district and Kutaisi, . in 1876 was as a naturalist during the Alay hike Skobelev, . in 1878 led a scientific expedition in Shahrisyabs, . Hissar, . Karategin and Alai, . in 1881, toured parts of the Tashkent, . Jizzak and Khojent counties, . affected by locust and grasshoppers (Stenobothrus), . in 1884 made a tour of Samarkand and Penjikent, . in 1886 - in the mountains basin,
. Chirchik, in 1887 went to the Faithful and Caracal to describe the earthquake. Consists director of women's gymnasium in Tashkent. Scholarship on. devoted mainly bugs, for which he is considered one of the best. In addition, they published an article on the geography of Central Asia and some other. Highlights of the O.: "zoogeographical character Hemiptera fauna of Turkestan" (St. Petersburg, 1891) and "Materials for Entomology provinces of the Moscow school district. Hemiptera ( "Proceedings of the Imperial Society of Naturalists, Anthropology and Ethnography", VI, 1870, No.. 3). N. Kn.