This year, the Hydrobiological Station at Lake Glubokoye celebrates its 130th anniversary.
The hydrobiological station on Lake Glubokoe, the first in Russia and one of the first scientific freshwater stations in the world, was established in 1891 under the auspices of the Imperial Russian Society for the Acclimatization of Animals and Plants, a public organization that existed and operated almost exclusively on private donations. Professor N.Yu. Zograf, the founder of the station, was at that time chairman of the Ichthyology Department of the Society.
Lake Glubokoye was assigned the role of a model reservoir, “where the invertebrate fauna and other components of the biota will be studied in all details and in relation to the fish population, for this knowledge to be transferred to other reservoirs”. Moreover, the biological station was assigned the role of an experimental and acclimatization base.
The presentation on the history of the biostation is available through this LINK.