I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology


The I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is leading institution in Ukraine specialized in general zoology. It was officially founded on August 1, 1930 in the building of St.Olga Female Gymnasium.
Evolutionary biologist Ivan Schmalhausen was the first director of the Institute.
Among the scientists of Institute were Aleksandr Markevich, Mykola Szczerbak, Vladislav Monchenko, Boris Balinsky, Sergey Paramonov, Leo Sheljuzhko and many others.
Institute consists of 9 scientific departments, with about 100 scientists with academic degree work here.

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