125th anniversary of Professor Bystrow, an outstanding specialist in vertebrate palaeontology
Alexey Petrovich Bystrow (1899-1959) — eminent Russian palaeontologist, specialist in comparative and evolutionary anatomy, histology, palaeobiology of fossil vertebrates.
Following the completion of his medical education and work at the Department of Normal Anatomy at the Military Medical Academy, he was subsequently invited to join the Paleontological Institute in Moscow. After the Great Patriotic War, Bystrov was invited by Professor Yanishevsky to work at St Petersburg University, where he headed the Palaeontology Laboratory of the Institute of the Earth’s Crust and lectured on vertebrate palaeontology.
The archives of the Department of Palaeontology and the Palaeontological Museum contain Bystrov’s photographs, copies of his original drawings, numerous slides used in his fascinating and very popular lectures, and a number of original microscope slides used in his published research. This exhibition celebrates the surviving legacy of the scientist’s intellectual work.