Pavel Serebrovsky

Pavel Vladimirovich Serebrovsky (30 January 1888 – 5 February 1942) was a Russian ornithologist, biogeographer, and paleontologist.

Pavel was the son of Vladimir Vasilievich Serebrovsky and Anna Feofanovna and was born in the village of Khudoshino, Nizhny Novgorod province.

All the children sang in the church choir and one sibling Gleb became a talented bass singer.

In 1924 he went to work in the museum in the Academy of Sciences at Leningrad on the invitation of Sushkin and after his death Serebrovsky headed the zoological institute for 12 years.

In 1940 he was relieved from his position at the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences for reasons unknown but possibly related to the clergy class from which he came.