Elena P. Tikhonova

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Position: Researcher, Head of the Science archive ZIN RAS
E-mail: Elena.Tikhonova@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (812) 328-46-09, ext. 207
Educational background: Leningrad State University, Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, Chair of Zoology of vertebrates, 1981
Research interests: Morphology, ecology, taxonomy, phylogeny of Mammalia. History of science, archival studies.
Field studies: The Caucasus, Middle Asia, Kazakhstan, Moldavia, the Leningrad Region.
Professional membership: Theriological society of Russia at the Russian Academy of Sciences, http://therio.ru
Pedagogical activity: Practice of students archivists of the faculty of History of St. Petersburg state University on the basis of the Scientific archive of the ZIN RAS
Scientific projects and grants:
  • Participant of the international project “Lenfauna” (2000-2003);
  • Participant of RFBR Grant No. 03-04-49179 “Biological diversity of rodents of Arctic tundra and the history of its formation” (2003-2005);
  • Participant of RFBR Grant no. 06-04-49294-a: “Forest voles (Clethrionomyini, Arvicolinae, Rodentia) of the Palearctic: phylogeny, taxonomy, and settlement history based on conjugate analysis of data on DNA marker variability, paleontology, morphology, and comparative ethology” (2006-2008);
  • Participant of the basic research Program of the RAS Presidium “Biodiversity and dynamics of the gene pool”;
  • Participant of the basic research Program of the RAS Presidium “Wildlife: current state and development problems”;
  • Participant of the basic research Program of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Biological resources of Russia: dynamics in the conditions of global climatic and anthropogenic impacts”.
Selected Publications:
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2023. Anna Semyonovna Stroganova (1911–1961) and her contribution to the study of mammalian fauna of Russia // Studies in the history of biology. Vol. 15, No. 2. P. 101–129. https://doi.org/10.24412/2076-8176-2023-2-101-129
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2023. Books of receipts from the Scientific Archive of the ZIN RAS as a source on the history of the formation of collections (1894-1976) // https://www.zin.ru/conferences/Collections_seminar_2023/ С. 7–8.
  • Abramson N.I., Baryshnikov G.F., Golenishchev F.N., Tikhonova E.P. 2023. Tribute to G.I. Baranova (1931–2023) // Russian Journal Theriology. Vol. 22(2): P. 182–186. https://doi.org/10.15298/rusjtheriol.22.2.11
  • Sablina S.A., Tikhonova E.P. 2023. Dynamycs of Accessions of Zoological Collections to the Laboratory of Theriology of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1946–2015 // Biology Bulletin, Vol. 50, No. 7, P.1477–1485. https://doi.org/10.1134/S106235902307021X
  • Sablina S.A., Tikhonova E.P. 2022. Dynamics of Incoming Zoological Collections to the Laboratory of Theriology of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1946–2015. // Zoological Journal. Vol. 101, No. 7. P. 831–840. https://doi.org/10.31857/S0044513422070108
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2022. Vladimir Ivanovich Zhadin during the Great Patriotic War // I All-Russian Scientific Conference (with international participation) "Readings in memory of V.I. Zhadin": to the 125th anniversary of his birth, St. Petersburg, April 18–22, 2022: abstracts. St. Petersburg: SPbF IIET RAS; Yaroslavl: Filigran. P. 83–84. ISBN: 978-5-6047785-2-4.
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2022. The life and work of Vladimir Ivanovich Zhadin during the Great Patriotic War // Studies in the history of biology. Vol. 14, N 1. P. 27–54. https://doi.org/10.24412/2076-8176-2022-1-27-54
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2022. Section "History of Biology" at the XLII International Scientific Annual Conference "Science and Technology in the years of storms and upheavals" dedicated to the anniversaries of A.P. Karpinsky and L.S. Berg // Studies in the history of biology. Vol. 14, N 1. P. 159–168. https://doi.org/10.24412/2076-8176-2022-1-158-168
  • Tikhonova E.P., Sablina S.A., Golenishchev F.N. 2022. On the biology of reproduction of voles of the genus Blanfordimys (Rodentia, Arvicolinae) // Mammals in a changing world: actual problems of theriology. International Meeting of the Theriofauna of Russia and Adjacent Territories (XI Congress of the Theriological Society at the Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow, March 14–18, 2022. P. 363.
  • Borkin L.J., Tikhonov A.N., Tikhonova E.P. 2021. Tibetan zoological drawings by V.I. Roborovsky, Russian researcher of Central Asia // Russian studies of the Himalayas and Tibet – 2021: Nature and culture. Conference proceedings, St. Petersburg, November 23-24, 2021 / ed. by L.J. Borkin. P. 13–16.
  • Brodskaya N.K., Dunarva Yu.A., Przhiboro A.A., Tikhonova E.P. (ed.-comp.). 2021. «…War tragic record…»: The Great Patriotic War in the Memoirs of the staff of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences – Saint Petersburg: Russian Collection, 2021. – 428 p.: ill. – ISBN 978-5-98092-070-8.
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2021. Alexander Nikolaevich Golikov – malacologist and hydrobiologist: on the 90th anniversary of his birth (29.12.1931–18.01.2010)// Bulletin of the Far Eastern Malacological Society. Vol. 25, 1/2. P. 116–152. https://doi.org/10.24866/1560-8425/2021-25/116-152
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2021. Scientific Archive of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (50th anniversary of its foundation) // Miller Readings — 2020: “Continuity and traditions in the preservation and study of documentary academic heritage". Materials of the III International Scientific Conference on October 21-24, 2020, St. Petersburg. AD FONTES series. Materials and research on the history of science. Vol. 20. P. 102– 110. DOI: 10.25990/archiveras.mc-2020.twvm-0f57
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2021. Theriology at the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the 1930s-1940s // Science and Technology: Questions of history and theory. Materials of the XLII International Annual Scientific Conference of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian National Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Science and Technology in the years of storms and upheavals (to the anniversaries of A.P. Karpinsky and L.S. Berg)" (October 25-29, 2021). Issue XXXVII. St. Petersburg: SPbF IIET RAS, 2021. P. 91–92.
  • Chaban E.M., Sirenko B.I., Tikhonova E.P., Smirnov A.V. 2021. Marine Research Laboratory of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the study of marine ecosystems of the Arctic and Far Eastern Seas of Russia in the 1960s-80s under the leadership of A.N. Golikov (to the 90th anniversary of his birth) // electronic publication. http://www.imb.dvo.ru/images/nscmb/files/meetings/AVZ-Conf-2021-Posters/Chaban_EM_poster.pdf
  • Chaban E.M., Tikhonova E.P., Golikova E.A. 2021. List of publications by Professor A.N. Golikov (1931–2010), prepared for the 90th anniversary of his birth // Bulletin of the Far Eastern Malacological Society. Vol. 25, 1/2. P. 153–180. https://doi.org/10.24866/1560-8425/2021-25/153-180
  • Chaban E.M., Sirenko B.I., Tikhonova E.P., Smirnov A.V. 2021. Marine Research Laboratory of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the study of marine ecosystems of the Arctic and Far Eastern Seas in the 1960s–1980s under the direction of A.N. Golikov // Marine Biology in the 21st Century: Achievements and Development Outlook (in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician Alexey V. Zhirmunsky). Abstracts of the International Conference. October 6–8, 2021 Vladivostok, Russia. P. 40–42.
  • Slepkova Nadezhda, Tikhonova Elena 2021. Evgeny Nikanorovich Pavlovsky (1884–1965) and the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR // Book of abstracts 47th Congress of the International Society for History of Medicine. Latvia, Riga, 23–27 August 2021. С. 172–173.
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2021. On the 110th birth anniversary and the 60th death anniversary of the mammologist Anna Semyonovna Stroganova (1911–1961) // Russian Journal Theriology. Vol. 20(2): P. 215–222. https://doi.org/10.15298/rusjtheriol.20.2.10
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2020. Remembering the past: the life path of P.V. Letitskiy // Hunting and hunting economy of Russia and neighboring countries. Current state and prospects / Materials of the All-Russian scientific and practical conference. Readings in memory of Anatoly Alekseevich Silantiev. St. Petersburg, June 4, 2020 P. 100–105.
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2020. To the biography of ornithologist Dina Safonovna Lyuleeva (Bekzhanova) (1931–2019) // Russian Ornithological Journal, 29(2018): 6167–6186.
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2020. Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences during the siege of Leningrad (1941–1944) // Electronic video publication https://www.zin.ru/museum/exhibitions.html
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2019. The blockade years of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1941–1944) // Science and Technology: Questions of history and theory. Proceedings of the XL International Annual Conference of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian National Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Scientific St. Petersburg: To the 295th Anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences" (October 28 – November 1, 2019). Issue XXXV. SPb.: SPbF IIET RAS; Saratov: Amirit, 2019. — 328 p. P. 139–140. ISBN 978-5-00140-395-1
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2019. Structure, staff and research topics at the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the eve of the Great Patriotic War (1937-1940) // Electronic collection of scientific articles and publications Archival search, 2019, Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 412 p., ill. P. 54–70. – ISBN 978-5-6041820-1-7.
  • Tikhonova E.P., Sablina S.A. 2019. Our Mother. To the 100th anniversary of the birth of Gulsyuma Khusyainovna Nuraeva (Urusova) (July 15, 1920 – October 14, 2008) // Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Vol 323, № 1, 2019, p. 45–60. https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2019.323.1.45
  • Tikhonova E.P., Abramov A.V., Tikhonov A.N. 2018. Obituary. Igor Mikhailovich Fokin (1933–2017) // Russian Journal Theriology. Vol.17(2): P. 108–112. https://doi.org/10.15298/rusjtheriol.17.2.07
  • Slepkova N.V., Tikhonova E.P. 2018. The visible image of the history of the Zoological Museum and Institute in museum exhibitions and Scientific Archive of the ZIN RAS: Problems and Solutions // Miller Readings — 2018: Continuity and Traditions in the preservation and study of documentary academic heritage : Proceedings of the II International Scientific Conference, May 24-26, 2018, St. Petersburg / comp. and ed. by D. I. N. I. V. Tunkin; Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, SPbF ARAN. — St. Petersburg: "Renome", 2018. — 830 p., ill. — (Ad fontes. Materials and research on the history of science; Vol. 14). P. 364–371. ISBN 978-5-00125-107-1
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2018б. Creation of an electronic database of photographic documents at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences // Information service in the age of electronic communications. XIII All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference "Electronic Resources of Libraries, Museums, archives" November 1-2, 2018, St. Petersburg. Collection of materials. P. 126–131. ISBN 978-5-907074-06-4
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2018а. Documentary sources about the employees of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences N.T. and L.A. Zolotarev. // "Documentary heritage of Russia: problems of theory and practice. To the 100th anniversary of the State Archival Service of Russia": Materials of the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference, Moscow, Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, June 8, 2018 / Ed. V.P. Kozlov; ed. comp. I.N. Ilyina. - M.: Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2018. 384 p. P. 362 – 371. ISBN 978-5-9909105-7-7
  • Rizhinashvili A.L., Tikhonova E.P. 2017. The fate of the Lake Baikal in the fokus of international attention (the correspondence of three hydrobiologists ‒ G. E. Hutchinson, M.M. Kozhov and V.I. Zhadin) // Questions of the history of Natural Science and Technology, 38(4): 643 – 661.
  • Sablina S.A., Tikhonova E.P., Belozertseva I.V. 2017. Comparison of the behavior of the forms "arvalis" and "obscurus" (Microtus arvalis Pallas, 1779) in the test "partition" // Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 321(2): 218–227. https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2017.321.2.218
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2015. Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences during the war of 1941–1945. The work of the Leningrad Group (1942–1944) // FGBUN Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ZIN RAS). Reporting scientific session on the results of the work in 2014 Abstracts of reports April 14–16, 2015 St. Petersburg. P. 30–32
  • Sablina S.A., Tikhonova E.P., Golenishchev F.N. 2015. Features of reproduction and postnatal ontogenesis of Gromov's vole (Alexandromys gromovi Vorontsov et al., 1988) in connection with its taxonomic position // Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 319, N 3. P. 418–427. https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2015.319.3.418
  • Slepkova N.V., Tikhonova E.P. 2014. Cooperation of the Zoological Institute with zoologists of Australia: episodes of interaction. Saint Petersburg – Australia. SPb., "European House": 251–279.
  • Tikhonova E.P., Slepkova N.V., Tikhonov A.N. 2014. Scientific contacts of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences with scientists of Great Britain (1950s–1980s). St. Petersburg – Great Britain. XVIII–XXI centuries. St. Petersburg, "European House". P. 427–453.
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2013. Preliminary description of the personal funds of A.I. Argiropulo and B.S. Vinogradov, stored in the Scientific Archive of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences // Miller Readings: To the 285th anniversary of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Collection of scientific articles based on the materials of the International Scientific Conference on April 23-25, 2013, St. Petersburg / ed. by I.V. Tunkin. SPb.: Nestor-History (series: Ad Fontes. Materials and research on the history of science. Issue 4): 397–402.
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2013. Organization of archival work at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. // Fundamental Science: problems of studying, preserving and restoring documentary heritage: Materials of the International Scientific Conference / Ed. V.Yu.Afiani; M.: Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences: 241–246.
  • Tikhonova E.P., Tikhonov A.N. 2013. Scientific relations of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the Netherlands in the second half of the XX – early XXI centuries. // St. Petersburg – Netherlands XVIII – XXI centuries. European House. St. Petersburg. P. 216–229.
  • Rodchenkova E.N., Tikhonova E.P., Abramson N.I. 2012. Phylogeography, settlement history and intraspecific structure of the European Red vole (Myodes glareolus) // Reporting scientific session on the results of the work in 2011, April 3–5, 2012, St. Petersburg. P. 25–26.
  • Sablina S.A., Tikhonova E.P. 2012. Postnatal development and some features of reproduction of two types of rats (Rattus rattus Linnaeus 1758 and Rattus tanezumi Temminck, 1844) // Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vol. 316, No. 1. P. 71–82. https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2012.316.1.71
  • Tikhonov A.N., Tikhonova E.P. 2012. Mutually beneficial exchange: Siberian mammoths are going to Japan, and Japanese scientists are going to Siberia. St. Petersburg – Japan: XVIII–XXI centuries. (Series "St. Petersburg and the World") – S-Pb, 2012. P. 232–238.
  • Tikhonova E.P. 2012. Archive of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences as a source of information about the history of the Institute. // Zoological collections of Russia in the XVIII-XXI centuries: scientific and socio-political context. / Ed.-comp. N.V.Slepkova. S-Pb: Publishing house of SPbGETU "LETI": 345 – 359.
  • Rodchenkova E.N., Abramson N.I., Tikhonova E.P. 2011. Problems of intraspecific taxonomy in the European red vole (Rodentia, Arvicolinae). // Theriofauna of Russia and Adjacent Territories (IX Congress of the Theriological Society at the Russian Academy of Sciences). Materials of the international meeting. February 1–4, 2011, Moscow. P. 399.
  • Sablina S.A., Tikhonova E.P. 2011. On the study of reproduction and postnatal development of two rat species (Rattus rattus Linnaeus 1758 and Rattus tanezumi Temminck, 1844) // Theriofauna of Russia and adjacent territories. International Meeting of the IX Congress of the Theriological Society at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia, Moscow, February 1-4, 2011 Materials of the Congress. Moskow. P. 416.
  • Slepkova N.V., Smirnov A.V., Tikhonova E.P. 2010. Cooperation of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences with zoologists of France. Saint Petersburg – France. Science, culture, politics. Series "St. Petersburg and the world" – S-Pb: 576–596.
  • Slepkova N.V., Krylov P.I., Tikhonova E.P. 2009. The staff of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in India – episodes of scientific communication. St. Petersburg – India. History and modernity. Series "St. Petersburg and the world" – S-Pb: 361–386.
  • Abramson N.I., Rostova N.S., Tikhonova E.P. 2008. Intra- and inter-population variability: scope and consistency (on the example of Microtus oeconomus Pallas) // Current state and ways of development of population biology. Materials of the X All-Russian Population Seminar, November 17–22, 2008, Izhevsk. P. 77–82.
  • Abramson N.I. and Tikhonova E.P. 2005. Reevaluation of taxonomic structure of the root vole (Microtus oeconomus Pallas, 1776, Rodentia, Arvicolidae) from the territory of the former USSR based on evidence from craniometric and molecular data. // Russian Journal of Theriology, 4(1): 63–73.
  • Abramson N.I., Smirnov N.G. and Tikhonova E.P., 2004. Morphological studies on collared lemmings (Dicrostonyx) of Bolshevik Island (the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago) with notes on evolutionary development and taxonomic position. Russian Journal of Theriology, 3(2): 63–70.
  • Abramson N.I., Tikhonova E.P., 2003. Comparative analysis of morphological and molecular variability in two genera of Arctic lemmings (Lemmus and Dicrostonyx) with evaluation of phylogeographic hypotheses // Theriofauna of Russia and adjacent territories (VII Congress of the Theriological Society). Materials of the international meeting. February 6–7, 2003. Moscow. P. 12.
  • Abramson N.I., Tikhonova E.P., 2002. Craniometric variability in ungulate lemmings (Dicrostonyx) of the Palearctic: correlation with the variability of karyotypes and mitochondrial DNA // Theriological studies. Issue 1. ZIN RAS. Theriological Society. St. Petersburg. P. 4–16.
  • Abramson N.I. and Tikhonova E.P. 2002. Morphometric variation in collared lemming (Rodentia, Arvicolinae, Dicrostonyx) in the Eurasian Arctic in relation to karyotype and mitochondrial DNA diversity. Russian Journal of Theriology,1(2): 125–132.
  • Tikhonova E.P., 1990. On the biology of the common mole-vole (Ellobius talpinus Pallas, 1770) in the Zaunguz Karakums. // V Congress of the All-Union Theriological Society of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Vol. 2. Moscow. P. 114–115.
  • Tikhonova E.P. 1990. Common mole-vole (Ellobius talpinus Pallas, 1770) in the Zaunguz Karakum // Fauna, systematics and evolution of mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 225: 34‒41.
  • Letitskaya E.P. 1984. Materials on reproduction and postnatal development of the common mole-vole Ellobius talpinus (Rodentia, Cricetidae). // Zoological Journal, 63(7): 1084‒1089.
  • Letitskaya E.P., 1983. Materials on reproduction and postnatal development of the common mole-vole (Ellobius talpinus Pallas, 1770) // Rodents. Materials of the VI All-Union Conference, Leningrad, Nauka, Leningrad Branch, 1983, P. 319–321.