On December 18 at 6:30 PM, the Darwin Museum's cinema will host the premiere of Dmitry Olshansky's documentary film "Aniva Marine Biological Station. Sakhalin." Admission is with museum tickets.
On December 25 at 5:00 PM, the film will be shown in the conference hall at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Filmmaker Dmitry Olshansky and Alexander Semenov, director of the Aniva Biological Station, will be present. The screening will be open to IEE RAS staff.
Two years ago, in southern Sakhalin, a group of scientists discovered a largely unexplored site with a fantastic diversity of animals and plants. The Aniva Marine Biological Station is currently under construction there, the first and, so far, only one on Sakhalin Island. It is a secluded research center, accessible only by sea, and then only with the tide and in good weather.
In 2025, the first full field season took place on the Aniva. Dmitry Olshansky, head of the Darwin Museum's multimedia department, lived alongside biologists and botanists in a tent camp, hiked and sailed, visited laboratories, and filmed unstoppably.
This film is the result of his "participant observation" of life at the biological station. Its protagonists are the people responsible for the complex logistics, infrastructure construction, and selection of scientific personnel; scientists studying the flora and fauna; and, of course, the nature of the southern coast of Sakhalin Island.