Sergey Ivanovich Snigirewski (Russian: Сергей Иванович Снигиревский; 10 January 1896 [29 December 1895] – 24 November 1955) was a Russian and Soviet ornithologist who was interested in the management of game birds for hunting, zoogeography, and ecology.
Sergey was born in Tula to Ivan Alekseevich and Sofya Alekseevna but his parents divorced when he was young and he grew up with his mother and stepfather Vladimir Dmitrievich Shidlovsky, an insurance agent at Tula Zemstvo who was also a friend of the ornithologist Nikolai Zarudny.
Sushkin who headed ornithology at Petrograd in 1921, invited Snigirewski to handle the collections of birds from Askania-Nova so he returned to Leningrad University and graduated in 1925.
[1][2] He returned to Leningrad to work for a while and spent time on the management of the Bashkir and Kuibyshev reserves.
After the war he worked in the Arctic Institute examining the collections from the far east and taught at the University of Leningrad.