Grigory Bey-Bienko


Grigory Yakovlevich Bey-Bienko was a Soviet and Russian entomologist who specialized in Orthoptera.

Life and education

Bey-Bienko was born in Bilopillia. During his childhood, he regularly accompanied his father on trips in Siberia, and it was during these that he developed his interest in insects. He graduated from the Omsk Institute of Agriculture, having made a list of local acridoidea while still a student.
During the Second World War, he took part in the Siege of Leningrad, before being evacuated to Perm.

Career

Bey-Bienko moved to Leningrad in 1927, and there worked in the USSR Institute for Plants Protection, Leningrad Agricultural Institute and Institute for Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. During this time, he produced many works on the ecology and entomology of groups as diverse as the Tettigoniidae and Dermaptera native to the USSR.
He was a Stalin Prize winner, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and chairman of the USSR Entomology Society.
He was one of the editors of Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR and Fauna of the European Part of the USSR.

Selected works

  • Bey-Bienko G. Ya., 1954: Insecta: Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae. Fauna SSSR. 388 pp.
  • Bey-Bienko G. Ya., 1962 Об общей классификации насекомых. Энтомологическое обозрение 49 : 6–21
Category:1903 births
Category:1971 deaths
Category:Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Category:Omsk State Agrarian University alumni
Category:Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Category:Soviet entomologists