Grigory Polyakov

From around 1900 he began to study the birds of the Moscow region with guidance from Fyodor Lorentz.

He attended evening courses in natural history at the Shanyavsky Moscow City People's University.

From 1910 to 1917 he organized the first ornithological bulletin in Russian, just after the death of Lorenz, whose obituary was published in the first issue by A.F.

He received a gold medal from the Imperial Society for the Acclimatization of Animals and Plants for his work in organizing the publication.

He made a trip to Kursk in 1925 and on June 22 1927 he was arrested as a bourgeois element and alleged counter-revolutionary and was sentenced to 10 years in labour camp.