Vasily Fyodorovich Zuyev (russian: Василий Фёдорович Зуев, 1 (12) January 1754 – 7 (18) January 1794) was a Russian naturalist and traveler,

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of the

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(1779). Zuyev participated in the academy's expeditions (1768–74) under the command of

Peter Simon Pallas Peter Simon Pallas Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussian zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia between 1767 and 1810. Life and work Peter Simon Pallas was born in Berlin, the son ...

. In 1781–82 he traveled to the region of the Bug and lower

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rivers, which he described in the book ''Travel Notes From St. Petersburg to Kherson in 1781 and 1782'' (1787). He wrote a number of works on zoology, chiefly on the taxonomy of fish. Zuyev was the author of the first Russian manual on natural science, ''Outline of Natural History'' (parts 1–2, 1786).

References

* Fradkin, N. G. ''Puteshestvie I. I. Lepekhina, N. Ia. Ozeretskovskogo, V. F. Zueva''. Moscow, 1948. * Raikov, B. E. ''Akademik Vasily Zuyev, ego zhizn’ i trudy''. Moscow-Leningrad, 1955. (Bibliography.) 1754 births 1794 deaths Russian naturalists {{Russia-scientist-stub