Nikolay Krumov Boev (8 May 1922 - 12 November 1985) was a Bulgarian zoologist who worked at the National Museum of Natural History (Bulgaria) at Sofia.
[1] Boev was born in Aytos, Bourgas District to Krum, a book merchant and Zlatka Georgieva, a teacher of French and Russian.
He also spent time in the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia where he met Boris III of Bulgaria, a keen ornithologist.
[2] He was a keen popularizer and writer on natural history topics, appearing on television shows and illustrating books on his own.
He helped in the translation into Bulgarian and publication of many works by foreign authors such as Tinbergen, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, Gerald Durrell and others whom he knew personally.