He is the founder of anthropology in Russia: Who is Anatoli Bogdanov?

(1834-1896) Russian anthropologist, and zoologist. He is the founder of anthropology in Russia. He was born on October 13, 1834, in the Voronezh province of the Nizhnedevitsk region, and died on March 28, 1896, in Moscow. At an early age, he turned to broad scientific and social studies. The development of the first anthropological institutions in Russia and the dissemination of scientific knowledge in this field was provided by his activities. In 1864, he founded an organization of lovers of the natural sciences, anthropology, and ethnography dealing with the climate immunization of plants and animals. A series of exhibitions on ethnography, polytechnics, and anthropology at the initiative of Bogdanov formed the basis of the polytechnic and anthropological museums in Moscow. Bogdanov, director of the Moscow Zoological Museum and developing this institution, influenced many important Russian anthropologists and zoologists.

Anatoli Petrovich Bogdanov (13 October 1834 – 28 March 1896) was a Russian Empire zoologist and a pioneer of physical anthropology. He served as a professor of zoology at Moscow University. He was influential in the establishment of the Moscow Zoo.

Bogdanov carried out many important studies on birds and medical zoology in the field of zoology, his studies in the field of anthropology are mostly focused on the chronology of the people living in ancient Russia. He wrote nearly 40 anthropological and 30 zoological studies on the anthropology of the mounds period, the tombs of the Scythians, and the bones and skulls of stone age people.