THE MEETING ON THE WORK OF THE JOINT RUSSIA-MONGOLIA COMPREHENSIVE BIOLOGICAL EXPEDITION OF THE RAS AND MAS WAS HELD AT IEE RAS

For more than 50 years, the Russia-Mongolia Comprehensive Biological Expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences has been working at our Institute. Work did not stop even during the period of Covid restrictions, but the Expedition Council did not meet in person over the past two years. This year, from October 31 to November 7, a friendly visit of the leading specialists of the expedition to Moscow took place at the Institute. The delegation included the Academician of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences, scientific leader of the Mongolian part of the expedition Ch. D. Gantulga.

On November 1, the Council of the expedition was held, in which both the Mongolian guests and the director of our Institute, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences S.V. Naidenko, scientific leader of the expedition from the Russian side, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.V. Rozhnov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yu.Yu. Dgebuadze, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Scientific Secretary of the Institute N.Yu. Feoktistova, Ph.D., Head of RF part of the expedition S.N. Bazha, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Deputy Head of Russian part of the expedition N.I. Dorofeyuk, Ph.D., Scientific Secretary of the Russian part of the expedition E.V. Danzhalova and Doctor of Historical Sciences, Chief Specialist of the Department of S.-Kh.D. Syrtypov.

At the meeting, the specialists presented the reports of the scientific teams of the expedition that worked on the territory of Mongolia in 2022. In total, 10 scientific teams worked in Mongolia this year, which included 34 employees from the Russian side and 26 employees from the Mongolian side. All units successfully completed their tasks and received important results.

In addition to the reports, the meeting discussed new areas of expedition research, discussed the issues of training Mongolian scientific specialists on the basis of the IEE RAS, as well as monographs that can be published as part of the expedition.