Lyudmila Borisovna Volkova is a research associate at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, scientific editor of the Invertebrates section of the Moscow Red Book (2001, 2011, 2022), and an expert of the Wildlife Conservation Center.
In 1973, she entered the Faculty of Biology of Lomonosov Moscow State University. She graduated with honors from the Department of Entomology. In her senior years and until 1985, she participated in the activities of the insect protection sections of the Central Council of the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation and the Moscow Regional Council of All-Russian Society for the Protection of Nature. Together with her colleagues, she designed a number of entomological reserves and developed scientific principles for maintaining meadow communities of plants and insects in specially protected natural areas. She has repeatedly led projects to study and protect insects in Moscow and the Moscow Region, and actively participated in such projects.
L.B. Volkova is one of the scientific editors of the Invertebrates sections of the Red Book of the Moscow Region (1998, 2008) and Moscow (2001, 2011, 2022), is a member of the authors' collective of the Red Book of the Russian Federation (2021), and one of the authors of the Rules for the Maintenance of Green Spaces in Moscow (2007).
Thanks to L.B. Volkova, the Rules for the first time introduced a category of multi-grass multi-species species-preserving lawns from plants of local natural flora for green areas of urban development and the transport network with incomplete mosaic mowing, which allows preserving the diversity of not only producer plants in the biota community, but also the most widespread consumers - invertebrates.
An active popularizer of the topic of widespread use in cities of multi-grass multi-species lawns from plants of local natural flora. The author of more than 60 scientific publications on entomology and nature conservation and dozens of popular science articles and speeches on these topics, has an author's column on the website http://progazon.tilda.ws/, publications in the media.
Laureate of the Moscow Mayor's Prize for Nature Conservation. Awarded the badge of the Department of Nature Management and Environmental Protection of the City of Moscow "For active work in the field of environmental protection of the city of Moscow".
The IEE RAS team sincerely congratulates Lyudmila Borisovna on her 70th birthday! We wish her good health, success in scientific and educational activities!
//Happy Birthday to IEE RAS Research Fellow
LYUDMILA BORISOVNA VOLKOVA
Dear Lyudmila Borisovna, Happy Anniversary to you!
Thank you for your many years of dedicated work! Your expert and scientific work is an invaluable contribution to science and environmental protection.
We would like to express special gratitude for your active educational work. You not only study and preserve nature on the pages of scientific publications and monographs, but also
make it closer and more understandable to every city resident, popularizing the idea of species-saving lawns.
We wish you good health, inexhaustible energy, new scientific achievements and inspiration for further fruitful work for the benefit of science!
IPEE RAS Team
August 26, 2025
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