Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bartenev (; 1882–1946) was a

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, Doctor of Biological Sciences, and Rector of Rostov University in 1920–1921. He was active in the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union.

Biography

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bartenev was born in 1882. He graduated from the

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in 1907. In 1911 he became a Professor at the Department of Zoology of the Imperial University of Warsaw (and after the evacuation of the University in

Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East European Plain on the Don River, from the Sea of Azov, directly north of t ...

in 1915, became the base of Rostov University, where Bartenev worked until 1930. He was Rector of Rostov University in 1920–1921. In 1934–1936 and in 1939–1945 he also was the head of the Department of Zoology at the Kazakh State University in

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and one of the founders of this University. For 40 years (since 1907) of his scientific work Bartenev had published 83 works on

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, ecology and geographical distribution of

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. Among his most remarkable works are "''Notes on the Dragonflies of the Zoological Department of the Museum of Ural Society of Naturalists''" (1909), "''Materials on the fauna of dragonflies of

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''" (1914), "''Notes on the Dragonflies of

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''" (1928), "''Materials for the Knowledge of the

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in odontological relation''" (1930), "''Notes on the collection of dragonflies of the North Caucasian hydrobiological station in 1928 in

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''" (1930). He described about 80 species and subspecies of Odonata of which only about 18 are now considered valid. Bartenev was a Doctor of Biological Sciences and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bartenev, Aleksandr 1882 births 1946 deaths Academic staff of Southern Federal University Moscow State University alumni Academic staff of the University of Warsaw Biologists from the Russian Empire Academic staff of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Soviet musicologists Imperial Moscow University alumni Soviet biologists