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Vasiliy Alekseyevich Vatagin Backward Top of subunit Nikolay Nikolayevich Kondakov Forward Aleksey Nikanorovich Komarov
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Kondakov
(1908–1999)

Born in Ryazan, began to paint when a child: some excellent drawings of birds and plants of 10 years old boy remained. Having graduated as a zoologist from Moscow University, he worked in Darwinian Museum and in several research institutes, participated in a number of expeditions. He was outstanding animal painter, famous illustrator of popular and scientific books in zoology, amongst which were several field guides to butterflies, Red Data Books etc. His favorite objects were butterflies whom he collected a lot.

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