The Watch-Earth international zoological expedition. Expedition member Joe Fozak, chemistry teacher from the United States of America during field research in the Tuva ASSR01.08.1990#8324117
The international conference Ecology, Perestroyka, Politics. Chairman of the USSR State Environmental Committee Nikolai Vorontsov.10.11.1989#5968843
A baby mammoth found in 1988 on the east coast of the Yamal Peninsula. Professor of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences), chairman of the mammoth research committee Nikolai Vereshchagin (second from right) tells Leningrad television correspondents about a female woolly mammoth preserved in the permafrost.10.12.1988#6594234
The Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences). A map showing the place where the mammoth was found. East coast of the Yamal Peninsula.10.12.1988#6594232
A baby mammoth found in 1988 on the east coast of the Yamal Peninsula. Scientists of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) examine the female woolly mammoth preserved in the permafrost.10.12.1988#6594231
A baby mammoth found in 1988 on the east coast of the Yamal Peninsula. Scientists of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) examine the female woolly mammoth preserved in the permafrost.10.12.1988#6594230
A baby mammoth found in 1988 on the east coast of the Yamal Peninsula. Professor of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences), chairman of the mammoth research committee Nikolai Vereshchagin, center, examines the female woolly mammoth preserved in the permafrost.10.12.1988#6594229
A baby mammoth found in 1988 on the east coast of the Yamal Peninsula. Scientists of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) examine the female woolly mammoth preserved in the permafrost.10.12.1988#6594226
A baby mammoth found in 1988 on the east coast of the Yamal Peninsula. Scientists of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Russian Academy of Sciences) examine the female woolly mammoth preserved in the permafrost.10.12.1988#6594225
Yevgeny Syroyechkovsky, doctor of biology, Head of the Laboratory for Ecological Basis of Ecosystem Protection and Animal Population Management, Institute of Evolutional Morphology and Animal Ecology, USSR Academy of Sciences (now Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the Russian Academy of Sciences).08.10.1988#6591868
Herpetologist Yury Laptikov of the Moscow Serpentarium taking venom from a snake. 1988.01.08.1988#629143
Junior researcher P. Korablyov with samples of the osteological collection of the Central Forest State Natural Biosphere Reserve in the Tver Region.05.02.1988#6571845
Soviet zoologist Rudolf Burukovsky, Chair of Hydrobiology and Ichtyopathology, Kaliningrad Technical Institute of Fisheries Industry (currently Kaliningrad State Technical University), tells his guests about his collection of seashells.02.12.1986#5728001
Soviet zoologist Rudolf Burukovsky, Chair of Hydrobiology and Ichtyopathology, Kaliningrad Technical Institute of Fisheries Industry (currently Kaliningrad State Technical University), shows a collection of seashells.02.12.1986#5728000
Veterinarian Tatyana Kuznetsova examines a long-eared owl at a zoological base in the Moscow Region.12.07.1986#8333691
Raisa Komarova, caretaker of the zoological base in the Moscow region, with her ward.12.07.1986#8333690
A veterinarian of the zoological base in the Moscow Region carries out a medical examination of a wolf.12.05.1986#6677116
From right: Anna Kolevatova, DSc (Biology) and a professor at the faculty of zoology and bee-keeping of the Kirov Agricultural Institute, now the Vyatka State Agricultural Academy, and her colleague study the causes of fur-seals' deaths in the Far East during an expedition to the Commander Islands in the Kamchatka Territory.05.05.1984#5868938
Zoologist Yevgeny Chernikin, senior research fellow of the Barguzinsky State Biosphere Reserve. Buryatian ASSR.08.09.1981#8334902
The Moscow Station of Young Naturalists, renamed the Moscow Children's Ecological Biological Center in 2008 and now called the Moscow Center of Ecology, Regional History and Tourism for Children and Teenagers. Photo: Volodya Sergeyev studies amphibians.25.02.1980#8242370
The Moscow Station of Young Naturalists (the Moscow Ecological-Biological Center for Children, now the Moscow Center of Ecology, Regional History and Tourism for Children and Teenagers). Photo: Teenagers with their animals.25.02.1980#8242364
Komi ASSR. The Pechora Ilychsky Biosphere Reserve in the Northern Urals. Nature reserve workers Sergei Kulida and Anna Sebyanina measure salmon.14.07.1976#8964086
The meeting of researchers at the Faculty of Biology at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), How Many Wild Animals Are There in Russia.24.03.1976#5777741
Tyuleny Island in the Sea of Okhotsk. Fur seal and sea lion rookeries evolve on the sandy beaches of the island. A wildlife sanctuary has been organized there to protect the rookeries. Barrels of fresh water for the observation personnel.01.06.1974#2930053
Tyuleny Island in the Sea of Okhotsk. A wildlife sanctuary has been organised there to preserve northern fur seal rookeries.01.06.1974#2908940
Tyuleny Island in the Sea of Okhotsk. Breeding grounds of fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) and sea lions (Eurnetopias jubatus) are located on the sandy beaches of the island. A wildlife sanctuary has been organised there to preserve the rookeries. A fur seal cub.01.06.1974#2908939
A Soviet zoologist, Director of Institute of Bioecology of the Ural Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.01.10.1973#5712915
Zoologist, Associated Professor of Stockholm University Bjorn Arvid Afzelius at a symposium of biologists in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).01.04.1971#6042529
Sukhumi monkey nursery (Research Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy, Abkhaz ASSR, Georgian SSR.24.08.1966#5773131
Lev Zenkevich, Soviet oceanologist, zoologist and founder of the Soviet biological oceanography.10.08.1964#6051193
Bezvodnoye village in the Nizhny Novgorod Region's Kstov District. Photo: Rural school students attend the Bird Friends club.01.04.1956#5935670