Serhiy Slavkov, a preparator and taxidermist from the Museum of Forest Mammals and Birds of the NULES (Kyiv)

Slavkov Serhii Mykhailovych (1919–1997) was a zoologist, taxidermist, and one of the authors of the modern zoological museum of the NULES, which was built on the place of the museum, destroyed in 1941 and is now called the Museum of Forest Mammals and Birds. The researcher worked in the museum for about 50 years, from ~1950 to ~2000, and became one of the main collectors and preparators of specimens and the author of the exhibition. Working as a taxidermist (officially in the system of the educational institution as a ‘training master’), he made almost all large-sized stuffed figures from specimens received by the museum from various sources.