LABORATORY OF MARINE INVERTEBRATE MORPHOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Laboratory dates back to 1893, when Academician A.O. Kovalevskiy founded a laboratory specifically for zoology. In the ensuing years the Lab was led by well-known zoologists Academicians V.V. Zalenskiy and N.V. Nasonov. In 1925 it was reorganized as the Laboratory of Experimental Zoology and Morphology, the Morphology Department of which was situated in Leningrad and headed by Professor D.M. Fedotov. In 1935 this Department became a division of the newly-founded Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Paleozoology in Moscow, and from 1936, a separate Laboratory of Invertebrate Morphology. Main subjects of scientific research were evolution and phylogenetic studies. Beginning in 1966 the Laboratory was led by Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of sciences G.A. Viktorov, and in 1967 it was renamed the Laboratory of Invertebrate Morphology and Ecology. At that time entomology was the main focus. In 1974 Professor V.A. Sveshnikov became Chief of the Lab. In 1984 it was renamed the Laboratory of Aquatic Invertebrate Morphology and Ecology, and from 1992 has been known as the Laboratory of Marine Invertebrate Morphology and Ecology. Since 1999 the Laboratory has been headed by Professor-Doctor T.A. Britayev. 

Laboratory staff. 2011.

Professor V.A. Sveshnikov

Professor-Doctor T.A. Britayev.