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Last update of repository: 15 March 2020

Zoologicheskii institut RAN (ZIN)


Arkhiv
[Archive]

Telephone: +7 812 328-46-09

Opening hours: by appointment

Head:  She En Sen


Holdings

Total: 4 fonds; ca. 8,000 units; 1894–1988
scientific documentation—ca. 4,000 units (1894–1988); photographs and negatives—ca. 1,500 units (1900–1988); administrative records—ca. 1,200 units (1944–1988); personnel files—180 units (1951–1988); personal files—ca. 350 units (1935–1988)

Although most of the administrative archive of the Zoological Museum and Institute have been transferred to the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPbF ARAN, E–25), the Institute Archive holds significant scientific works and photographic documents of a scientific nature, administrative and account records, personnel records and personal files of the employees of the Zoological Institute and the Museum. The more extensive archival materials for the period after 1953 remain in the Institute. There are also records of the Biological Station of the Zoological Institute in the village of Rybachii (Kaliningrad Oblast) and the Scientific Committee for the Study of Mammoths and Mammoth Fauna (1948–1975). There are also the personal papers (1929–1972) of the zoologist G.K. Petrushevskii.

N.B. The permanent archive of the Zoological Museum and Institute (fond 55, 1829–1951), including the diaries of N.M. Przheval'skii (1867–1881), is retained in SPbF ARAN (E–25). Brief annotation of this fond available electronically on the electronic informational system of ARAN: http://isaran.ru/isaran/isaran.php?pa....


Working conditions:
Researchers are accommodated in the working room of the Archive, since there is no formal reading room. Files are delivered the same day they are ordered.

Reference facilities:
Opisi are available for processed fonds.


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