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Grigory Polyakov

Grigory Polyakov is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Grigory Polyakov rather than just read about it. In short: Grigory Ivanovich Polyakov (Russian: Григорий Иванович Поляков; February 16, 1876 – April 4, 1939) was a Russian and Soviet ornithologist. He founded and published an ornithological bulletin for eight years in which he published extensively.

Key takeaways

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Reproduce the core statement of Grigory Polyakov from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Grigory Ivanovich Polyakov (Russian: Григорий Иванович Поляков; February 16, 1876 – April 4, 1939) was a Russian and Soviet ornithologist. He founded and published an ornithological bulletin for eight years in which he published extensively. Arrested in 1927 he continued his research in labour camp and was rehabilitated posthumously only in 2003. He was a student of Fyodor Lorenz (1842-1909).

Biography Polyakov was born in Lyalin Lane, Moscow where his father Ivan Kondratievich Polyakov was a leading businessman and factory owner. He grew up fishing, hunting and observing nature. From around 1900 he began to study the birds of the Moscow region with guidance from Fyodor Lorentz. He attended evening courses in natural history at the Shanyavsky Moscow City People's University. His first notes on birds were published in 1910. He was also involved in organizing a hunting organization and in 1916 he was appointed in the department of fishing and hunting. A second work on the birds of Bogorodsk was published in 1924. From 1910 to 1917 he organized the first ornithological bulletin in Russian, just after the death of Lorenz, whose obituary was published in the first issue by A.F. Kohts. He received a gold medal from the Imperial Society for the Acclimatization of Animals and Plants for his work in organizing the publication. It was however subscribed by only about a 100 and subsidies from the department of agriculture were in trouble with changing political situation around 1916. Polyakov also became ill and sought the help of M.A. Menzbier. Following the 1917 revolution, Polyakov continued his bird studies and donated a number of bird specimens to the Zoological Museum. He made a trip to Kursk in 1925 and on June 22 1927 he was arrested as a bourgeois element and alleged counter-revolutionary and was sentenced to 10 years in labour camp. While at the Solovki prison camp he continued to study birds and was made in charge of the biological station from 1927 to 1931 where he found a gull in the Solovetsky Monastery that Sushkin identified for him as a form of herring gull. In 1929 his term was reduced to five years. In 1932 Polyakov was in Vologda and given a research position still in communication with ornithologists like S.A. Buturlin. In 1933-34 he was in Moscow and his health declined and several colleagues attempted to help him obtain a pension. Little is known of his last days but he died of tuberculosis. He was officially rehabilitated on 15 May 2003.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Grigory Polyakov

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Grigory Polyakov claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Grigory Polyakov before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Grigory Polyakov ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Grigory Polyakov

In research: Grigory Polyakov appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Grigory Polyakov in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Grigory Polyakov is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1876 births, 1939 deaths, Inmates of Solovki prison camp, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Grigory Polyakov outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Grigory Polyakov in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Grigory Polyakov means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Grigory Polyakov matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Grigory Polyakov?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Grigory Polyakov.