From May 5 to 12, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Researcher of the Laboratory of Aquatic Community Ecology and Invasions of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEE RAS) A.A. Kotov held a series of lectures for 7th-8th grade schoolchildren of the "Biological Shift" at the Sirius Educational Center (Sirius Federal Territory). The lectures were devoted to the problem of invasive species in marine and continental water bodies, as well as the work of hydrobiologists. One of the lectures was called "Why Study Small Crustaceans?"
The schoolchildren showed great interest in the reports and asked the lecturer many "children's" and very "adult" questions. A.A. Kotov separately spoke about the activities of the IEE RAS.
