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Museum of Zoology
Museum of Zoology
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Science. Education/Museums
MUSEUM OF ZOOLOGY of the Institute of Zoology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1 University Embankment), Russia's largest museum of its type. Founded in 1832 it first welcomed visitors in 1838. In 1930 the Institute of Zoology emerged on the basis of the museum. Kunstkammer collections laid the foundation for the museum, and it was through the efforts of F. F. Brandt, P. K. Kozlov, N. N. Miklukho-Maclay, P. S. Pallas, and N. M. Przhevalsky that the museum added to its collections. A constantly growing collection is arranged according to the zoological system principles. For instance, the Fauna of Black Smokers exposition is devoted to species discovered in the 1970s in sub-water volcanic zones. The museum boasts a collection of 40,000 exhibits, of which many are rare and unique, including the world's only mammoth and two mammoth calves, a southern elephant fossil skeleton, a stuffed marsupial wolf and wild camels. Annually the museum is visited by some 600,000 people. Since 1896 the museum has been located in the building of the former Customs Packhaus (1826-32, architect I. Lucini); the exposition department of the museum was opened in 1901. References: Наумов Д. В. Зоологический музей АН СССР: Крат. история и описание экспозиции. Л., 1980; Слепкова Н. В. На Васильевском острову у Дворцового моста. СПб., 2001; Зоологический музей: Путеводитель. СПб., 2002. N. L. Korsakova.
Persons
Brandt Johann Friedrich (Fedor Fedorovich)
Kozlov Sergey Sergeevich
Luchini Giovanni (Ivan Franzevich)
Miklukho-Maclay Nikolay Nikolaevich
Pallas Peter Simon
Przhevalsky Nikolay Mikhailovich
Addresses
Universitetskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 1
Bibliographies
Наумов Д. В. Зоологический музей АН СССР: Крат. история и описание экспозиции. Л., 1980
Слепкова Н. В. На Васильевском острову у Дворцового моста. СПб., 2001
Зоологический музей: Путеводитель. СПб., 2002
The subject Index
Kunstkammer
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Berg L.S., (1876-1950), biologist and geographer
BERG Lev Semenovich (1876-1950, Leningrad), geographer, biologist, Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1946). Graduated from Moscow University in 1898. In 1904-13, worked at the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences in St
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Birzhevaya Square
BIRZHEVAYA SQUARE, translated as Exchange Square, in 1937-89 - Pushkinskaya Square. The square lies on the spit of Vasilievsky Island between Universitetskaya Embankment and Makarova Embankment
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Imperial Hunts
IMPERIAL HUNTS were an important part of Imperial Court life. The Imperial Hunts combined traditions from Russian Tsar Hunts of the 16th-17th centuries, and hunting customs of European courts
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Museums (general article)
MUSEUMS. Russia's first public museums appeared in St. Petersburg. In 1702 Peter the Great issued first orders on collecting and exhibiting high-quality models and various rarities
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Nikolay Mikhailovich (1859-1919), Grand Prince
NIKOLAY MIKHAILOVICH (1859, Tsarskoe Selo - 1919, Petrograd), Grand Prince, general of infantry (1913), adjutant general (1903), honorary member of Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1898)
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Przhevalsky N.M., (1839-1888), geographer
PRZHEVALSKY Nikolay Mikhailovich (1839-1888), geographer, major general (1886), member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1878), honorary citizen of St. Petersburg (1880). He graduated from the Academy of the General Staff in 1863
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Russian Entomological Society
RUSSIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, situated at 1 Universitetskaya Embankment. It was founded in 1859 by members of the Zoological Museum and St. Petersburg's amateur entomologists
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Universitetskaya Embankment
UNIVERSITETSKAYA EMBANKMENT (prior the end of the 18th century, Kadetskaya Embankment, until 1887 - Bolshaya Neva River Embankment), is situated on the right bank of the Bolshaya Neva, between Birzhevaya Square and Sixth Line of Vasilievsky Island
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Vasileostrovsky District
VASILEOSTROVSKY DISTRICT is an administrative territorial unit of St. Petersburg. (Its territory administration is located at 55 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island) Its present-day borders were formed in 1917 (the western part was a separate
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Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE of the Russian Academy of Sciences, situated at 1 Universitetskaya Embankment, the leading research institution specialised in zoology and the centre of comprehensive study of Russia's fauna
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