Georgy Alexievich Skrebitsky (1903-1964) was a Soviet writer and naturalist. He was born in Moscow, the son of a doctor. He grew up in the town of Chern in Tula province. In 1921, he graduated from high school and went to study in Moscow. After completing his studies from Institute of Words, he eneted the faculty of hunting and animal husbandry at the Moscow Higher Zootechnical Institute to study more thoroughly the natural world. He graduated from the Zoo Institute in 1930, and went to work in zoology at state institutes such as the Moscow State University.