Zoological Institute RAS

The total collection fund of the Institute is about 60 million items and about 30 thousand zoological exhibits in the Zoological Museum . The results of the Institute’s scientific work are reflected in its main publications, “Fauna of Russia” and “Keys to the Fauna of Russia” (more than 300 volumes in total), and in other publications, such as, for example, Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Parasitological collections, and Research fauna of the seas ”(also a total of more than 300 volumes).

In 2007, the institution turned 175 years old, although the history of creating the institute and museum collections began much earlier - from the time of Peter the Great , who personally bought exhibits for the Kunstkamera , the first Russian museum he created in 1714. The independent Zoological Museum was officially opened in July 1832, which is considered to be the time of its foundation. The building, now occupied by the institute and the museum (the southern warehouse of the Exchange ), was transferred for the needs of the latter in the 1890s; the grand opening of the museum in it took place in 1901. In 1930, the museum was transformed into the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences ^[3] .

During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 , the scientific team of the Zoological Institute suffered heavy losses, as evidenced by the plaque at the entrance to the building. The largest entomologists among those who died in besieged Leningrad were D. A. Ogloblin, A. N. Reikhardt, A. P. Semenov-Tian-Shansky , A. S. Skorikov, S. S. Smirnov, and others.

• 1929-1942 - Acad. S. A. Zernov
• 1942-1962 - Acad. E.N. Pavlovsky
• 1962-1974 - Acad. B. E. Bykhovsky
• 1974-1994 - Acad. O. A. Scarlato
• 1994-2005 - Acad. A. F. Alimov
• 2006 —2018 - Acad. O. N. Pugachev ^[3]
• On October 29, 2018, Sergey Yuryevich Sinev was appointed acting director ^[5]

• Committee for the Study of Mammoths and Mammoth Fauna at the Department of General Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences ^[3] ;
• Scientific societies: Russian Entomological Society , Hydrobiological, Parasitological, Malacological, Herpetological named after A. M. Nikolsky;
• Editions of the magazines Parasitology, Entomological Review , Zoosystematica Rossica , Russian Hydrobiology Journal ^[3] , Russian Journal of Herpetology ;
• Zoological library (branch of BAS RAS ).

The Institute publishes Proceedings of the Zoological Institute (volume 320 was published in 2016) and two large monographic series on taxonomy - Fauna (148 volumes until 2014) ^[6] and Keys (178 volumes until 2014) ^{[7 ]} . The journals Entomological Review (1901), Zoosystematica Rossica (1992), Parasitology (1967), Comparative Cytogenetic s (2007) ^{[3] [8] are} edited on the basis of the institute.

Proceedings of the Zoological Institute

• 1896-1916. Yearbook of the Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences ^[9]
• 1917-1918. Yearbook of the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences
• 1922-1923. Yearbook of the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• 1925-1932. Yearbook of the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• 1932-1968. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• 1968-1991. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences
• Since 1992 - Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Fauna Series

• 1911-1923. The fauna of Russia and neighboring countries is mainly from the collections of the Zoological Museum of the Imperial (since 1917 - Russian) Academy of Sciences.
• 1929-1933. The fauna of the USSR and neighboring countries is mainly from the collections of the Zoological Museum (since 1933 - the institute) of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
• 1935-1990. Fauna of the USSR. New series .
• 1993—. Fauna of Russia and neighboring countries .

Key Series

• 1927-1990. Keys to the fauna of the USSR , published by the Zoological Museum (since 1933 - Institute) of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
• 1991-. Animal identifiers published by the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

• Category: Employees of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• Zoological Institute. 150 years old. / Ed. Scarlato, O.A. - L: Nauka, 1982. 243 p.
• Pugachev O.N., Slepkova N.V. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences // Biology in St. Petersburg. 1703-2008: Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ed. ed. E.I. Kolchinsky. - St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriya, 2011. - S. 200—201. - 568 p.
• The collections of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences are a treasure of world science. / Alimov A.F., Tanasiychuk V.N., Stepanyants S. D. // Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 2000.V. 70. No. 1.S. 63-72.
• Collections of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences are the basis for the study of species diversity. / Alimov A.F., Tanasiychuk V.N., Stepanyants S.D. // Zool. journal 1999.V. 78. Issue. 9, pp. 1027-1047.
• St. Petersburg is the cradle of domestic zoology. / Alimov A.F., Zaitsev V.F., Pugachev O.N., Stepanyants S.D., Slepkova N.V. // Science in Russia. 2003. No. 3. S. 92-100.
• The role of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the study of the biological diversity of Russia. / Alimov A.F., Kerzhner I.M., Lobanov A.L., Stepanyants S.D. // Successes sovr. biol. 2002.V. 122. No. 1. S. 6-15.

• Official site
• Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the site “St. Petersburg. Encyclopedia".