Sergey Ivanovich Ognev () (17 November 1886 in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

– 20 December 1951 in Moscow) was a

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zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

and naturalist, remembered for his work on

mammalogy In zoology, mammalogy is the study of mammals – a class of vertebrates with characteristics such as homeothermic metabolism, fur, four-chambered hearts, and complex nervous systems. The archive of number of mammals on earth is constantly growi ...

. He graduated from

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in 1910, the same year in which he published his first monograph. In 1928, he became a

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at the

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. He published a variety of textbooks in zoology and ecology. His

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, ''Mammals of Russia and adjacent territories'', was never completed. He is remembered in the

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

names of three mammals: ''

Talpa ognevi Ognev's mole (''Talpa ognevi'') is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It occurs in the southeastern coastal area of the Black Sea from northeastern Turkey to Georgia. It inhabits different habitats associated with moist soils in lowland ...

'', ''

Cnephaeus ognevi Ognev's serotine (''Eptesicus ognevi'') is a species of vesper bat found in western and central Asia. Taxonomy Described in 1918 by Nikolay Alekseyevich Bobrinski, it was later synonymized with Botta's serotine (''E. bottae'') of Western Asia ...

'', and ''

Plecotus ognevi Ognev's long-eared bat (''Plecotus ognevi'') is a species of bat found in Asia. By 2006, it was recognized as a separate species from the ''P. auritus'' species complex. Range and habitat Ognev's long-eared bat was recorded in the following cou ...

'', and the common name of Ognev's Mouse-tailed Dormouse.

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1886 births 1951 deaths 20th-century Russian zoologists Soviet zoologists Scientists from Moscow Academic staff of Moscow State University {{biologist-stub