Evgeny Chernikin

Evgeny Mikhailovich Chernikin (Russian: Евге́ний Миха́йлович Черни́кин, Ukrainian: Євген Михайлович Чорникiн) (20 July 1928 – 17 August 2009) was a Soviet/Russian zoologist and ecologist, known for his works in Barguzin Sable's ecology.

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Evgeny Mikhailovich Chernikin
Chernikin in 1951
Born	(1928-07-20)20 July 1928 Alexandrovka (now Starobilsk Raion), Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Died	17 August 2009(2009-08-17) (aged 81) Davsha, Republic of Buryatia, Russia
Alma mater	Moscow Fur Institute
Known for	Ecologist of Barguzin Sable Animal photographer
Awards	Meritorious Conservation Worker of Republic of Buryatia
Scientific career
Fields	Zoology
Institutions	Scientific zoologist in Krasnodar, Mary, Dashoguz, Commander Islands 1953–1955 Kronotsky Nature Reserve 1955–1964 Barguzin Nature Reserve 1964–2009

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Chernikin grew up in Pyatigorsk, where he studied at school with known in the future as writer Genrikh Borovik. He graduated from Moscow Fur Institute in 1953. Scientific zoologist in Krasnodar, Mary, Dashoguz, Commander Islands in 1953–1955, Kronotsky Nature Reserve in 1955–1964, Barguzin Nature Reserve in 1964–2009. He was awarded a PhD in agriculture by Irkutsk State University in 1974.

• sister – Olga Mikhailovna Birzul (1935–1967).
• married twice:

1. in 1953 Maria Alekseevna Stepanova (1930–2001), daughter Olga Solomina → grandson Russian genealogist and ethnologist Alexander Solomin;
2. in 1968 Ludmila Dmitrievna Remenuk (b. 1936), daughter Alexandra Chernikina → granddaughters Evgenia Krysova and Alexis. His widow Ludmila with their daughter and granddaughters now live in New Zealand.

• Venerable scholar of Barguzin taiga (in Russian)
• Evgeny Chernikin. The Sable in my life (in Russian)