Special zoning basing on natural and biological diversity of the Palearctic was worked out. On this basis, development of the geographical network of protected areas of Russia is proposed. The basic attention is paid to State Nature reserves and Biosphere reserves, to federal and regional refuges, wetlands of international and national importance, ethno-ecological refuges and special ethno-ecological zones for traditional resource management of indigenous peoples of the North, and forming of the international network of nature protecting areas in frontier regions (taking part in the organization of the first in Russia international nature reserve “Druzhba”). Conception of the “Biosphere Polygon” of Biosphere and/or State Nature Reserve was developed and introduced into scientific and practical use. Structures and conceptions proposed by the Laboratory permit to optimize protection of the biodiversity and biological resources on a wide territories and approach the nature reserves management to the solution of social-ecological tasks of survival and development for the traditional resource management of indigenous peoples, based on the use of the biological resources of local ecosystems. A number of legal and normative documents were developed.
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In 1985-2000, the 10-volumes series of monographs (total volume – 450 quires) is compiled and published dedicated to nature reserves and other types of nature-protected areas of Russia (USSR). The results of creation of the greatest in the World nature reserves system are presented.
5 scientific projects of large State Nature reserves were created and realized in Siberia (total area 9 mln 807 thousand ha): Central Siberian State Nature Biosphere Reserve, Putorana State Nature Reserve, Great Arctic State Nature Reserve, Daurskiy State Nature Biosphere Reserve, Taimyr State Nature Biosphere Reserve. The first in Russia ethno-ecological State refuge "Yeloguyskiy" of kets traditional resource management (747,6 thousand ha) and State refuge "Turukhanskiy" with the zone of taiga traditional resource management (90 thousand ha) were also organized.
Scientific and methodological foundations of the Cadastre (Inventory) of Animals of Russia were worked out to take control of utilization and protection of animals.
Scientific foundations of protection and sustainable use of taiga and tundra biological resources are worked out. The biological concept of northern indigenous peoples survival is developed. The way of life of these peoples is closely connected with conservation of biodiversity of their Environment.
On the basis of ecological and geographical studies of wild reindeer populations, the system of their protection and rational use on the territory of Russia was developed. This system has become the base to form a new branch of economy in the Russian North - the so-called reindeer hunting management. This work was rewarded with the State Premium of the USSR Council of Ministers (1990).
The fundamentals of the long-term complex monitoring of disturbed ecosystems were developed. More than 20 years stationary soil-botanic investigations of the forest and meadow ecosystems in Yenisei Siberia and in the Oksky State Nature Reserve have reference importance for the regions of Russia. Trends of the restoration successions of Yenisei pine forests after felling were discovered. It gave possibility to create practical recommendations, which had a great national economic importance.
Biogeographical, floristic and faunistic research in the unexplored regions of Siberia and Arctic are developing. The new zoogeographical division of Central Palearctic is elaborated. Based upon of field research from the High Arctic in the north up to Mongolian deserts in the south (the so-called Yenisei Ecological Transect), zoogeographical zonal-landscape patterns of animal populations in North and Central Asia, regularities of the plants' altitudinal distribution and flora of key plots of transect are discovered.
The studies of migratory birds and their habitats during the whole annual cycle (breeding grounds - migration routes – wintering sites) are carried out for the East-Atlantic and Central Palearctic Flyway Regions.
Special attention is paid to the elaboration of scientific foundations on conservation of rare animal species on a regional level. Scientific and methodological bases of studies and conservation of rare species in different regions of the Russian Federation (republics, territories and regions) are worked out. The Krasnoyarsk Territory (Central Siberia) was taken as a model. The 1-st (1995) and 2-nd (2001) versions of the Red Data Book of the Krasnoyarsk Territory were published. The 2nd version has the status of a legal document.
Long-term (more than 20 years) ecological research of Passerines and Micromammalia in the Yenisei taiga determined longstanding features of their population structure and population dynamics.
Scientific-practical foundations of zoo-culture by the example of marmots (marmotaculure) were developed.
The important role of ecologic-geochemical factors in appearance of mass infection diseases of warm-blooded animals was determined based upon of long-term investigations. Recommendations on the prediction of feral nidal diseases of human and animal according to the environmental factors were worked out.
