Arkady Tugarinov

He examined bird distributions in the light of climatic history and is considered a pioneer of paleornithology.

While at school he collected plants and made a herbarium and joined a group of Saratov naturalists at the age of seventeen.

He went to Kazan University, and attended the meeting of the All-Russian Union of Naturalists in 1901 at St. Petersburg.

In 1905 he moved to work at the Central Siberian Regional Museum as a curator.

In 1934-1937 he explored the Caspian Sea region and Transcaucasia in collaboration with Elizabeth Kozlova.

Tugarinov, seated third from left, between P. Sushkin and his wife, along with other ornithologists in 1924