MUSEUM OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PARASITOLOGY AND VETERINARY AND SANITARY EXPERTISE NAMED AFTER K. I. SKRYABIN

Abstract

The paper describes the structure of the Museum of Parasitology located on the basis of the Department of Parasitology and Veterinary and Sanitary Expertise of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Moscow State Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnology – MBA named after K. I. Skryabin", which was organized by Konstantin Ivanovich Skryabin. The first gross specimens were provided by him from his own collection. Later, together with his students, K. I. Skryabin replenished the collection with helminths brought by them from numerous expeditions to various regions of the Soviet Union. In 2017, the Museum acquired a new "face", major repairs were made, and thematic stands were allocated: helminthiasis of horses, cattle and small cattle, pigs, fish, birds, dogs and cats. There are exhibits showing ticks and insects that parasitize animals. Eighty zoonotic helminth infections are allocated to a separate stand, of which 26 are caused by trematodes, 17 by cestodes, 30 by nematodes, 3 by Acanthocephali, and 4 by pentastomes. A separate part of the Museum's permanent exhibition is a section dedicated to Academician K. I. Skryabin which presents original photographs, albums, personal belongings of the Academician, letters, postcards addressed to K. I. Skryabin, lectures and dissertations of the Academician, as well as technical means by which the material was studied (microscopes, magnifying glasses), and numerous works of K. I. Skryabin.