50 years ago, in 1975, on the initiative of Academician Vladimir Evgenievich Sokolov, Director of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Animal Ecology of the USSR Academy of Sciences (the future IEE RAS), the Scientific and Experimental Base "Chernogolovka" was created in Chernogolovka near Moscow.
Congratulations to everyone who worked and continues to work at the biological station, for whom it was and remains not just a place on the map, but a significant part of life, profession, scientific activity, career and destiny. Those who built the biological station for many years, supported it, kept and bred animals, studied them, wrote articles and books. Or simply came for biological practice. All those who were associated with the SEB "Chernogolovka" and for whom it remains a place to which you want to return, a place of strength and hope for the future.
Over 50 years, hundreds of people have worked at the biological station – students, postgraduates, research associates of the IEE RAS and other Russian and foreign scientific institutions. Dozens of dissertations and hundreds of diploma theses have been defended. Among those employees who worked at the biological station, candidates and doctors of sciences have grown up, among them there are corresponding members and academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Today, the NEB "Chernogolovka" of the IEE RAS is a large scientific and educational center with a large collection of live animals (about 2,000 individuals), a complex of enclosures and testing grounds for their maintenance and observation in conditions close to natural. Modern research equipment – from microscopes to GPS navigation devices – allows for a wide range of scientific research on behavior, ecological physiology, endocrinology, taxonomy, hybridization, and morphology of the outer skin of terrestrial mammals.
Since 1997, the Joint Educational and Scientific Biological Center of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the Moscow State Pedagogical University (ESC Chernogolovka IEE RAS) has been operating at the SEB Chernogolovka IEE RAS. In addition, students from both Moscow and regional universities complete their term papers and theses at the ESC Chernogolovka IPEE RAS.
We wish the staff of the biological station long, fruitful years, new discoveries, scientific breakthroughs, good health, and well-being!
