Alexei Byalynitsky-Birulya

Alexei Andreevich Byalynitsky-Birulya (24 October 1864 – 18 June 1937) was a Belarusian, Russian, and Soviet zoologist who studied the Arctic fauna and was a professor of zoogeography at the St. Petersburg University. He was also an artist who documented the landscapes on his travels. He was a victim of the Academic Trial which led to his being dismissed from his position as director of the zoological museum after which he was sent to a Siberian gulag to serve three years of hard labor.

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