Evgeny Spangenberg Biography

His grandfather, Evgeny Iogannovich Spangenberg, was a Dange by nationality, served as captain of the long -distance voyage. Father, Pavel Evgenievich Spangenberg, by profession was an engineer, a travel engineer, took part in the construction of many domestic railways, as a result of which the family often moved from place to place. Evgeny was born in the year at the Andrianovka station now Chita region.

He spent early childhood in St. Petersburg. Later from St. Petersburg, the family moved to a small railway village of Akhtubu now the territory of Akhtubinsk, Astrakhan Region. In - gg. In-GG studied at Moscow University at the natural department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. In the year, he became a senior researcher at the All -Russian Research Institute of Hunting, Mountain Handships and Reindeer Directorate, from the year - an associate professor of the Faculty of M.

Moscow State University named after M. In the year he was assigned to the scientific degree of candidate of biological sciences. In the year he joined the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University, at first becoming the head of the herpetological department, and later, in the year, according to the soul of the soul, going to the ornithological department. Here he became a senior researcher, having worked for 18 years, until his death.

Evgeny Spangenberg is the author of several scientific and artistic books about nature. One of them is the “Notes of the Naturalist”, which was reprinted 15 times in Russia and translated into many foreign languages. It is in this book that the author describes the years spent by him at the Akhtuba railway station and largely determined his interest in nature: “There, day after day, in contact with nature, I fell in love with it with all the forces of the children's soul.” Spangenberg “Notes of the Naturalist”: “Here in my memory, a small railway village - Akhtuba, arises with all the details.

Among the vast steppes, the Akhtubin gardens were a real oasis - the entire railway village was drowned in greenery. White acacias, lilacs, cherries, cherries and apple trees hid the buildings, their branches persistently climbed out the windows. A kilometer from the Akhtuba station, the Volga sleeve flowed. In his floodplain there were a lot of ducks and kuliks, lanky heron and other birds met, including remarkably beautiful brineros.

The birds nested in the steppe ravines and in the steep banks of the river, where they dug up deep holes, or populated hollow winds that rose among the river spill. ” Notes of a naturalist. Happy person. Materials to the biography of E.