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Nikolay Nikolayevich Kondakov Backward Top of subunit Aleksey Nikanorovich Komarov Forward Aleksandr Nikolaevich Sichkar
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Aleksey Nikanorovich Komarov
(1879–1977)

Born in a village of Tul'skaia Government. Began to paint and sculpture (of bread) domestic animals when he was 5 years old. Graduated in 1901 from School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. Illustrated many natural history books and journals, worked with all state publishing houses since 1917, among most widely known to zoologists are the books "Game birds and mammals of the USSR", "Birds of Soviet Union" etc. He participated in numerous scientific expeditions. Komarov's paintings are kept in many museums of Moscow.

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