From Sergiusz Riabinin’s genealogy

Abstract

Sergiusz Riabinin was born in Mariupol in the Ukraine in 1918 and died in Lublin in 1997.

He was a naturalist, a poet and a thinker. He studied arboreal insects and migrations of birds. He specialized in phenology, the study of periodic changes occurring in the material unity of phenomena of the organic and inorganic nature in the annual cycle. He laid foundations for this science, defining numerous concepts in the area of phenology.

He published more than a dozen volumes of his poetry, devoted among others to St Francis, St Maximilian and Mother of God. He dedicated many texts to the natural environment, and also to the issue of ecumenism. He was tied with Lublin from 1865 by his family roots – Russian-German-French. In 1996 he donated his house at 3 Złota Street to the town of Lublin to be used for cultural purposes. He was an example of a Pole.