Ph.D. Senior scientist of Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Head of the Work-group on creation of Russian mammals distribution Atlas.

Research interests: Mammals taxonomy and distribution, geographic variation and phylogeography of widespread mammals in Asia, zoological collections management.

Deputy Head of the Beluga-White Whale Program, Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, engineer of IEE RAS; Executive director of RPO Marine Mammal Council.

Research interests: marine ecosystems; marine biodiversity; some problems of marine mammals: population structure, distribution, ecology, behavior; environmental conservation issues

Ph.D. Associate professor of the department of Zoology and Ecology, Penza State University (https://www.pnzgu.ru/).

Research interests: fauna, taxonomy, hybridization and phylogeography of mammals of the Russian Plain and adjacent territories.

Ph.D. Researcher at Zoological Museum of Moscow State University.

Research interests: areology including species distribution modelling; investigation of various factors influencing modern species distribution; geographic variation in mammals.

Doctor of Biol. Sci., Principal researcher in the Russian Research Institute of Game Management and Fur Farming (VNIIOZ) in Kirov, Head of the Working Group on Beavers of the Theriological Society at the RAS, member of the Council of the Theriological Society at the RAS. Extraordinary member of Society for Research of the Game Animals and Hunting (Gesellschaft für Wildtier- und Jagdforschung e.V., Berlin)

Research interests: beavers in all their diversity and in all aspects of their life, ecology of game animals, ecological and genetic consequences of translocations

Doctor of Biology Sciences, Professor of the Department of Zoology and Ecology, Penza State University (https://www.pnzgu.ru/).

Research interests: fauna, distribution, ecology of bats of the European part of Russia and adjacent territories; population genetics and phylogeography of bats.

Ph.D., Leading Researcher at the Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Rostov-on-Don).

Research interests: fauna, geography of small mammals of the Caucasus and the south of the Russian Plain, formation and dynamics of the fauna of this region in the Late Pleistocene - Holocene.

Doctor of Biological Sciences, professor, dean of the Faculty of physics, mathematics and natural sciences, Head of the department of Zoology and Ecology, Penza State University (https://www.pnzgu.ru/).

Research interests: population ecology, molecular ecology of mammals, animal behavior, metapopulation theory, hybridization and species boundaries in mammals, distribution, taxonomy and population genetics of ground squirrels.

Ph.D. Senior scientist of Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS. Scientific leader of the Yenisei Ecological Station.

Research interests. Ecology and taxonomy of insectivorous mammals (Lipotyphla), population ecology of small mammals.

Ph.D., Senior researcher of the Department of Hunting Resource Studies in the the Russian Research Institute of Game Management and Fur Farming (VNIIOZ) in Kirov. Ph.D. student.

Research interests: ecology and ethology of game animals in anthropogenic landscapes

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Animal Ecology, Institute of Water and Environmental Problems FEB RAS in Khabarovsk. Member of the IUCN/SSC Otter Specialist Group.

Research interests: fauna of terrestrial mammals of the Far East, ecology and behavior of carnivorous and semi-aquatic mammals.

Ph.D., Leading Researcher of the Department of Hunting Resource Studies in the the Russian Research Institute of Game Management and Fur Farming (VNIIOZ) in Kirov.

Research interests: ecology, resources and economic use of animals.

Ph.D. Scientist of Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS. Head of scientific work in the programs of Russian closed-waters seals research.

Research interests: earless seals, marine mammals, habitat use, satellite tagging, habitat modelling

Researcher of the Department of Hunting Resource Studies in the the Russian Research Institute of Game Management and Fur Farming (VNIIOZ) in Kirov. Ph.D. student.

Research interests: ecology of the American mink and other semi-aquatic animals; game resource studies; trophy case

Ph.D., Senior Researcher of the Department of Hunting Resource Studies in the the Russian Research Institute of Game Management and Fur Farming (VNIIOZ) in Kirov.

Research interests: ecology, resources and economic use of wild boar.