The Orenburg State Pedagogical University invites to the III International Conference dedicated to the memory of the outstanding ornithologist, naturalist and traveller Nikolay Alekseevich Zarudny “Terrestrial vertebrates of arid and subarid ecosystems of the Aral-Caspian region”, which was postponed in 2021-2022 due to the deteriorating epidemiological situation.

The conference will be held on 24–28 April 2023.

Venue

Orenburg State Pedagogical University, Orenburg, Russian Federation.

Format.

Face-to-face, option of online (mixed) format is being explored.

Main directions of the conference

• The history of studies of terrestrial vertebrates of arid and subarid ecosystems in the Aral-Caspian region;
• Historical, natural and anthropogenic factors in the formation of terrestrial vertebrate fauna of arid and subarid ecosystems in the region;
• The modern state and spatial and temporal dynamics of terrestrial vertebrate fauna of arid and subarid ecosystems in the Aral-Caspian region;
• Systematics, evolution, ecology and protection of terrestrial vertebrates of arid and subarid ecosystems.

Symposium “Scientific heritage of N.A. Zarudnyi”ç

• Life, zoological studies and scientific heritage of N.A. Zarudny;
• Dynamics and modern state of fauna on N.A. Zarudny's expedition routes;
• Current status of animal taxa described or named after N.A. Zarudny.

Conference languages

Russian, English.

The Program Committee accepts proposals for breakout sessions and roundtables (with topic and organizers indicated) to confzar2022@yandex.ru.

Deadlines

Additional collection of materials has been announced – until March 01, 2023 submissions and articles are accepted in electronic form to the following address: confzar2022@yandex.ru.

Publication of articles

Each participant may submit 1 paper in which he/she is the sole author and 1 co-authored paper. The Programme Committee reserves the right to edit and reject papers. A collection of papers will be published in time for the conference.

Registration fee

For participants – 1000 rubles,

For postgraduates and students – 800 rubles.

The conference will be held at the Institute of Continuing Education of the Orenburg State Pedagogical University at the address: 2 Sovetskaya St., Orenburg. The Institute's building is located on the embankment of the Ural River, next to the building of the former Neplyuev Cadet Corps, where N.A. Zarudny served, and the famous “Grove beyond the Urals”, repeatedly mentioned in his works.

For accommodation of the participants of the conference, it is planned to use hotels located in the central part of Orenburg. Detailed information on their location and the cost of rooms of different types will be sent to registered participants.

Full participants must pay the organizational fee and a friendly dinner at registration; extramural participants please transfer the organizational fee to the bank card 2202 2026 3458 5966 (payee Galina G.) until March 1, 2023 with the message “Conference Organizing Fee”.

Excursions

Field trips are planned after the scientific program of the Conference. Three territories are tentatively planned for them: 1. Site “Pre-Ural steppe” GPZ “Orenburgsky” (Przewalsky horse reintroduction centre in the Russian Federation); 2. Site “Burtinsky steppe" GPZ “Orenburgsky”, Biological reserve "Svetlinsky” (Orenburg steppe Zauralskoye, spring migration), The final list of tours will be formed after receiving applications.

Contact addresses of the conference

FGBOU VO "Orenburg State Pedagogical University 460014, Orenburg, Sovetskaya ul. 19, e-mail: confzar2022@yandex.ru
tel.: +7 (3532) 50-07-17 (ext. 300) (Dean's Office of the Institute of Natural Sciences and Economics)

If you have any questions, please contact the Deputy Chairman of the Organizing Committee
Anatoly V. Davygora, davygora@esoo.ru, tel. mob. +7-922-625-67-10
to the Scientific Secretary of the Organizing Committee: Gebert Galina Aleksandrovna, Orenburg State Pedagogical University.

Source: Russian Society for the Conservation and Study of Birds