Honorary Chairman – Mikhail Nikiforov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, Republic of Belarus.
Chairman – Viktor Belik, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Chairman of the Working Group on Birds of Prey of Northern Eurasia, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation.
Vice Chairman – Vladimir Ivanovsky, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Department of Zoology, Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine, Vitebsk, Republic of Belarus.
Vice Chairman – Mikhail Kalyakin, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Vice President of the Menzbier Ornithological Society, Director of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Eldar Rustamov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, President of the Menzbier Ornithological Society, Ashgabat, Republic of Turkmenistan.
Irina Boehme – Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Ornithology Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Vladimir Melnikov – Ph.D., President of the Russian Bird Conservation Union (SOPR), Ivanovo, Russian Federation.
Alexander Mishchenko – Ph.D., President of the Russian Society for the Conservation and Study of Birds named after. M.A. Menzbir (ROSIP), Moscow, Russian Federation.
Pyotr Vengerov – Doctor of Biological Sciences, Voronezh State Natural Biosphere Reserve, Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Sergey Volkov – Ph.D., Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences named after A.N. Severtsova, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Valery Dombrovsky – Ph.D., Polesie State Radiation-Ecological Reserve, Minsk, Republic of Belarus.
Andrey Kuznetsov – Ph.D., Darwin State Natural Biosphere Reserve, Cherepovets, Russian Federation.
Vladimir Morozov – Federal State Budgetary Institution “VNII Ecology”, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Vasily Pchelintsev – Ph.D., CJSC “ECOPROEKT”, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Alexander Sorokin – Ph.D., Federal State Budgetary Institution “VNII Ecology”, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Petr Tilba – PhD in Biology, Sochi National Park, Sochi, Russian Federation.
Vyacheslav Frolov – Penza Regional Branch of the All-Russian Public Organization "Center for Environmental Policy and Culture," Penza, Russian Federation.
The conference is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Department of Zoology of the VSAM, the 80th anniversary of the birth and 50th anniversary of the scientific work of the professor of the department, Doctor of Biological Sciences of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, Honorary Ecologist of Belarus Vladimir Ivanovsky
Dates: 16.12.2026 – 18.12.2026.
Place: Vitebsk, Беларусь.
Organizers: Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine, Working Group on Birds of Prey of Northern Eurasia.