About Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky
Lived 1918 – 1997 (aged 79). Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky was a Russian entomologist.
Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky ; 28 May 1918, Ekaterinburg – 15 June 1997) was a Soviet entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera especially Carabidae and Histeridae. Kryzhanovsky published more than 250 scientific works including 6 monographs (for list see External Link). He described 135 new species of beetles.
Kryzhanovskiana olegi (Kataev et al., 2019), an extinct species of ground beetle from the Cretaceous Burmese amber, is named after Kryzhanovsky.
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Russian and Soviet entomologist (1918–1997)
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Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky was born on 28 May 1918 in Yekaterinburg.
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Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky died on 15 June 1997.
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Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky was an entomologist.
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Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky was Russian.
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