# Leonid Portenko

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{{Short description|Soviet ornithologist}}
thumb|Portenko (second from left) with fellow students in 1923
'''Leonid Oleksandrovych Portenko''' ({{Langx|uk|Леонід Олександрович Портенко}}; 11 October 1896 – 26 May 1972) was a [Soviet](/source/Soviet_Union) [ornithologist](/source/ornithology) of [Ukrainian](/source/Ukraine) origin who carried out extensive [zoogeographic](/source/Zoogeography) studies on the birds of the northern and north-eastern [Palearctic realm](/source/Palearctic_realm). He was born in [Smila](/source/Smila), though most of his career was spent working in, and conducting expeditions from, the ornithological department of the Zoological Institute of the [Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union](/source/Academy_of_Sciences_of_the_Soviet_Union) in [Leningrad](/source/Saint_Petersburg).<ref>{{cite journal |author=Kumari, E. |year=1974 |title=Leonid Alexandrovich Portenko 1896-1972 |journal=Journal für Ornithologie |volume=115 |issue=3 |pages= 365–367|doi= 10.1007/BF01644330|bibcode=1974JOrni.115..365K |s2cid=43318182 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.zin.ru/labs/ornithology/history.htm|title= Department of Ornithology: History|access-date=2014-04-18 |first= |last= |publisher=Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences |date= }}</ref>

His publications include:
* 1939, 1941 – ''Fauna of the Anadyr area''
* 1954, 1960 – ''The birds of the USSR''
* 1972–1973 – ''The birds of the Chukchi Peninsula and Wrangel Island''
* 1973 – ''Fauna of birds of non-polar parts of the Northern Urals''
* 1975 – ''The birds of zonal steppes and deserts of Central Asia''

==References==
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==Further reading== 
* Palmer R.S. 1973. Leonid Oleksandrovych Portenko. Auk 90: 487.

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