[1] He contributed to entomology, speleology, herpetology, and botany, and wrote over 200 scientific and popular science articles.

Buresh served as curator and later director of the Royal Museum of Natural History, became a full member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1929, and led its Institute of Zoology from 1947 to 1959.

[2] He graduated in 1909 and continued his post-graduate education at the University of Munich under world-famous zoologist Richard Hertwig and Franz Theodor Doflein.

[4] Although his main area of research was entomology, he also contributed to Bulgarian spelaeology, herpetology and botany.

From 1947 until his retirement in 1959, Buresh headed the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Zoology.