Members of a paleontological expedition of the Soviet Academy of Sciences V. Khloponin, left, and A. Berdov do excavations of the outcrop on a bank of the Yuribei River on the Gyda Peninsula, a place where a female mammoth remains were discovered in September 1979 after having lain in the tundra for about 9,600 years.22.11.1979#6338407
A paleontology expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the members of which carry out excavations in the steep of the Yuribei River on Gyda Peninsula where the remains of a 9,600-year-old female mammoth had been found.22.11.1979#6338401
A paleontology expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the members of which carry out excavations in the steep of the Yuribei River on Gyda Peninsula where the remains of a 9,600-year-old female mammoth had been found.22.11.1979#6338400
A paleontology expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the members of which carry out excavations in the steep of the Yuribei River on Gyda Peninsula where the remains of a 9,600-year-old female mammoth had been found. Parts of the find are carried to the base camp.22.11.1979#6338399
N.Vereshchagin, right, and A.Berdov, members of the paleontology expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences, carry out excavations in the steep of the Yuribei River on Gyda Peninsula where the remains of a 9,600-year-old female mammoth had been found.18.11.1979#6335515
Professor Konstantin Flerov, director of the Orlov Paleontology Museum, is seen here in the Prioksko-Terrasny State Biosphere Nature Preserve.22.10.1966#6082939
Professor Konstantin Flerov, center, director of the Orlov Paleontology Museum, attends a meeting of the Learned Council of the Prioksko-Terrasny State Biosphere Nature Preserve.22.10.1966#6082929
Professor Konstantin Flerov, director of the Orlov Paleontology Museum, is seen here in the Prioksko-Terrasny State Biosphere Nature Preserve.22.10.1966#6082928
Soviet scientist-geologist and paleontologist Dmitry Nalivkin, Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a Stalin prize recipient.31.10.1952#8432969
Members of an expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences who arrived in September 1901 at an excavation site where the body of a woolly mammoth was unearthed. The body was located in 1900 by an Evenk hunter on the bank of the Beryozovka River, a tributary of the Kolyma River. From left: Paleontologist Yevgeny Pfitzmeier and Senior Zoological Museum Zoologist Otto Hertz.29.09.1901#5951202
