Petr Sushkin

Petr Petrovich Sushkin (Russian: Петр Петрович Сушкин; 27 January 1868 – 17 September 1928) was a Russian and Soviet based ornithologist who specialised on comparative anatomy, and evolution of birds, particularly of the birds of prey.

He studied at the Tula Classical Gymnasium (1877-1885) graduating with a silver medal before going on to Moscow University in 1885.

He studied ornithology under Mikhail Menzbier and his dissertation in 1897 was on the morphology of the skeleton of birds, specifically of the kestrel.

His studies on the birds of southeastern Russia, Siberia and the Altai Mountains were published in several monographs.

Sushkin visited European museums from 1899 to 1900 and worked on his doctoral dissertation on the birds of prey.

Sushkin in 1920
Sushkin (seated second from left) and his wife Nadezhna (seated fourth from left) with other Soviet ornithologists, 1924