Sergey Panchenko is a Ukrainian and Kazakhstan ornithologist. He was engaged in the popularization of nature conservation in the Lugansk region. He became famous for his work on the study of birds in Eastern Ukraine, Northern and Central Kazakhstan.
Sergey Grigoryevich continued the tradition of studying avifauna in the regions. The most notable part of his activities is related to higher education. The main merit is recognized as the creation of a modern exhibition of the Zoological Museum at the Lugansk National University.
Merits of a scientist
Panchenko took part in many projects for the conservation of air fauna. He made a significant contribution to the survey of a nature reserve in the Luhansk region. Sergey Grigoryevich was engaged in the protection of endangered species of fauna.
He has published more than a hundred works on ecology, bird geography, avian problems of ornithology, and methods of teaching sciences. Sergey Grigorievich wrote a monograph "Birds of the Lugansk Region", which became a continuation of the work of famous scientists. Panchenko created the first list of vertebrate areas.
In 2000, an ornithologist published data on the current state of the fauna of vertebrates, rare species. About four decades Panchenko was engaged in the education of young zoologists and biologists.
He worked in Semipalatinsk, and then at the Lugansk Pedagogical Institute as an assistant professor, and then as head of the department of zoology.
The beginning of the way
The biography of the famous scientist began in 1928 in the Altai Territory. Sergei Grigoryevich was born on June 29 in a peasant family. Parents with four children then moved to Kazakhstan. After graduating from school, Sergei continued his education at the Talgar Agricultural College. After him, the graduate worked at the Institute of Livestock of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences.
In 1946, a young specialist became a student of the Kazakh State University. During his studies, Panchenko participated in expeditions to Central Kazakhstan, Balkhash. He studied the black tern, recognized as harmful to fisheries. In the thesis, the student proved that the bird is useful, and erroneous views are subject to a complete revision.
After completing his studies in 1951, Panchenko was sent to the graduate school of the Institute of Zoology at the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, headed by an outstanding ornithologist Igor Dolgushin. The scientist has been researching a huge sparsely populated area for three years. After graduate school, the researcher began working in the Republican Sanitary Epidemiological Station under the Ministry of Health.
Panchenko worked on his dissertation on the most important sporting and hunting birds and justifications for creating hunting farms in the Karaganda region. The work "Water birds of the Karaganda region", which was successfully defended in early 1956, reflected the material collected during graduate school. The data became the basis of a five-volume monograph on birds of Kazakhstan.
Scientific activity
In 1956, Panchenko became an assistant professor, and after the head of the zoological department of the pedagogical institute in Semipalatinsk. Sergey Grigoryevich became one of the founders of the Dolgushinsky ornithological school. An ornithologist collected information about the birds of the region, wrote the most significant works on the air fauna of Central and Northern Kazakhstan. These materials are in demand today.
Together with his family, his wife and daughter, who established personal life, Panchenko moved to Ukraine and began working at the Lugansk Pedagogical Institute. Panchenko was a member of the scientific council, supervised the work of the scientific community. He provided the department with new equipment, technical equipment, biomaterials.
At the highest level, practical classes and lectures were held. A talented teacher created the author's slide library, audio recordings of bird voices. And now his special courses are being read. It was Panchenko who introduced the work of students in areas broken up quarterly. Since 1964, the scientist was the head of field practice. Sergey Grigoryevich believed that taxidermy skills are necessary to create biological rooms.
He created a workshop “Making Zoological Visual Aids” for school teachers and employees of zoo-museums, and wrote recommendations on this topic. Thanks to the enthusiast, the small institute museum has become one of the best in Ukraine. Since 1972, the exposition has been moved to a new building. It created a photo gallery with pictures taken by Sergey Grigorievich.
In 1974, the museum became the hallmark of Lugansk University. The zoo museum gained fame abroad. It is included in the directory "Museums of the Nature of the World".
