46 Terneiskaya Street
Terney 692150
Primorsky Kray
Russia
Fax: 8(42374)91-3-78
E-mail: terney2000@mail.ru
Friend in the United States: (407)345-3846; kcorbett@harcourtbrace.com
Date of Birth: June 11, 1947
Speciality: Artist-Taxidermist
Specialization: Stationary and traveling nature exhibitions; landscape compositions
Objective
To develop traveling expositions and stationary exhibits that reflect the artistic images of nature.
Skills
óreation of art compositions from material gathered from nature, including
grass, leaves, and animal skins (legally obtained after
they were illegally hunted or killed in accidents), which are used
to make exhibition specimens; sculptures from tree roots;
photographs of nature; descriptive articles; reading of lectures on
nature protection; development of a micro-museum.
WORK EXPERIENCE
1986-1998 Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve (Terney, Russia)
Artist-Designer for the Reserve
Organized and set up nature exhibition hall in the Museums of Local
Culture in Dalnegorsk. and Spaask-Dalni and in the
specialized learning school in Plastun.
Developed a project and set up a nature museum at the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve.
Presented 200 lectures about nature with a demonstration of my photo portfolio.
Participated in the organization of the county March for Parks for three years.
1980-1986 Zoological Museum at Moscow State University (Moscow)
Zoologist (museum employee)
Completed special projects on taxidermy sculpturing and exposition under
the leading Russian museum specialists,
N.K.Nazmov (Moscow) and M.A. Zaslavskov(St. Petersburg-Zoological Institute);
managed of museum activities.
Produced 15 art compositions about the nature of the Russian Far East.
Participated in the organization of an ecological exhibition in Japan.
Set up a comparative anatomy exhibition hall.
Restored a valuable ancient exhibit from the Lorenza firm collection.
1969-1980 Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve (Terney, Russia)
Director, Nature Museum
Created 7 photo exhibits, 4 exhibits of sculpture made from tree roots, and 2 exhibits of flower bouquet compositions.
Organized and carried out special projects for museum employees of the
Russian Far East nature reserves: Systematization of
Types of Museum Expositions and The Specifics of Creating Museum Expositions
for Nature Reserves.
Participated in international exhibitions:
1.Hunting Trophies in Bulgaria
1.Nature of the Far East in Hungary
1.UNESCO Exhibition Nature Protection in the USSR in Ashgabat
Organized and created 2 exhibits for the kindergartens of Ternei county: Known Unknowns and Pine Nut Consumers.
Carried on an extensive correspondence with various journals.
1968-1969 Donetsk State University (Ukraine)
Director, Biology Department Laboratory
Worked with students on field studies in Collection and Conservation of Zoological Collections.
Organized and created the departmental nature museum.
Participated in the departmental exhibition on the theme People and Nature.
Worked in taxidermy and museum management in the Museums of Local Culture in Donetsk, Mariupol, and Rostov.
1966-1968 Khomutovskaya Steppe Nature Reserve (Botanical Institute-Ukraine)
Forest Inspector
Created a nature museum in the reserve (dioramas of the seasons)
Participated in 2 exhibitions on the nature of the reserve at the National Achievement Exhibition. (Moscow)
1963-1967 Priazovsky Agricultural Technical College (Ukraine)
Set up a museum exhibition hall on Anatomy of Domestic Animals.
Created and displayed an exhibit on Diversity in Breeds of Domestic Birds at the National Achievement Exhibition.
Participated in 4 ornithological exhibitions (the art of taxidermy) in the Mariupol and Vinnitsa Museums of Local Culture.
1960-1963 School Years (Ukraine)
Participated in activities of the school club Young Naturalists. (Donetsk region)
Created nature exhibition halls in the school museum:
1.Serpentarium
2.The World of Birds in Priazovsk
Studied drawing, photography, and taxidermy in Novoazovsk under the
museum's honored Ukrainian culture representative,
P.F. Ponomarenka, in Rostov and Donetsk.
PUBLISHED WORKS
Published 20 articles on the subject of nature protection in the following journals:
1. The Forest and People
2. Hunting and Hunting Economy
3. Wood Flora of the Far East
4. Young Naturalist
Published 250 photographs in photo journals about the nature of Ukraine and the Russian Far East:
1.Far East Nature Reserves
1.Amur
2.Nature Reserves of Ukraine and Moldavia
3.Furry Rainbow
4.Primorye Nature Reserves
5.The Natural World of Nature Reserves
Education
1998 Special project on museum management in USA (Washington)
1997 Special project on museum management in Germany. (Munich)
1980-1986 National University of Art - painting and graphic arts (Moscow).
1963-1967 Priazovsky Agricultural Technical College - zoological technician (Ukraine)
Interests
Landscape painting
Artistic photography
Sports
Professional hunting and fishing.