The Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (PIN; russian: Палеонтологический институт РАН) in
Moscow is among the world's largest paleontological institutes. An affiliate of the
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across ...
, it includes collections from all over the former
Soviet Union, as well as from other countries.
Museum
The Museum of Paleontology named after
Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov is run by the institute, and contains public exhibits representing almost every type of
fossil organism. Particularly well represented are
dinosaurs from
Mongolia,
therapsids from the
Perm region of
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eight ...
, and
Precambrian fossils from
Siberia.
During
World War II, the museum operated under a skeleton staff between 1941 and 1943 as the threat of the
Battle of Moscow
The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front (World War II), Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between September 1941 and January ...
anticipated an invasion by the German army. Some specimens were packed up to prevent damage or destruction in air raids.
Notable staff
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Evgeny Maleev
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Ivan Efremov
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Alexey Bystrow
Alexey Petrovich Bystrow, sometimes spelled Alexey Petrovich Bystrov and Aleksei Petrovich Bystrow, (russian: Алексе́й Петро́вич Быстро́в; February 1, 1899 – August 29, 1959) was a Soviet paleontologist, anatomist, ...
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Tatiana Dobrolyubova
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Boris Sokolov
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Kirill Eskov
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Alexandr Rasnitsyn
Alexandr Pavlovich Rasnitsyn (Russian: Александр Павлович Расницын) is a Russian entomologist, expert in palaeoentomology, and Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (2001).
His scientific interests are centered on ...
References
External links
Laboratory of Arthropodsat the
University of California Museum of Paleontology website
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Paleontological research institutes
Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Research institutes in the Soviet Union
Scientific organizations established in 1930
Paleontology in Russia
1930 establishments in the Soviet Union