Boris Nikolaevich Andreev

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Boris Nikolaevich Andreev — Honored Teacher of Schools of the RSFSR, recipient of the "Excellence in Public Education of the USSR" distinction, Honored Worker of Culture of the Yakut ASSR, and holder of the Orders of the October Revolution and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. He was born in the village of Kutana in the Suntarsky ulus, graduated from the Yakut Pedagogical College, and taught at the Elgyaiskaya and Sheinskaya schools. During his years at the Sheinskaya school of the Suntarsky ulus, Boris Nikolaevich gained recognition among biology teachers for the superior organization of nature-study work at the school. Boris Andreev is the author of the monograph "Birds of the Middle Vilyuy" and of the methodological manuals "Floriculture in Yakutia" and "Эдэр таксидермистарга субэлэр", and the founder and creator of the unique Museum of Nature in the village of Elgyaiskaya in the Suntarsky ulus.