Aleksei Aleksandrovich Ostroumov (zoologist)

Born in 1858. He graduated from Kazan University, headed the zoological station in Sevastopol Academy of Sciences, is professor of zoology at Kazan. Master's thesis: "The experience of research bryozoans (Kazan, 1886); doctoral thesis:" The history of the lizards "(" Proceedings of the Society of Naturalists at Kazan University, 1888). Ostroumov made a number of important studies on the fauna of the seas: the Black, Azov, Marmara and Black Sea estuaries. Printed a number of articles on embryology, anatomy, zoogeography and systematics of vertebrates bryozoans, mollusks, worms, insects, coelenterates and other animals. Its main work is: "Report on the participation in a scientific trip to the Sea of Azov in transport" Kazbek "(" Western Academy of Sciences ", LXIX,? 6, 1892)," The trip on the Bosphorus "(ibid., LXXII, 1893,? 8) ; "Catalogue des Mollusques de la Mer Noire et d'Azow" ( "Zool. Anzeiger ", 1893)," Key to fishes of the Black and Azov Seas ( "Vestnik fishery", "7, 8 and 9, 1896)," Trip to the Caspian Sea "(" Proceedings of the Society of Natural History, Kazan, 1901); "Zur Entwicklungsgeschiste des Sterlets "(" Zool. Anz. ", 1908)," On the ascidian Gulf of Peter the Great "(with MN. Pavlenko, "Annual Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences", 1911); a number of articles on the growth of Sturgeon (in "Proceedings of the Society of Natural History at the University of Kazan, 1910 - 14).