Written in both Russian and English in the same title.
The Altai experimental husbandry was established in 1980 in Gorno-Altai Autonomous region (Cherga) by the decision of the Presidium of the Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and on the initiative of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Division of the USSR.
The main directions of research are:
to collect and preserve the gene pools of rare and threatened aboriginal breeds of domestic animals, and to involve them into the hybridization process, so as to obtain new promising forms;
to carry out investigations in the field of particular genetics, to develop open-air pen-bred populations of some scanty species of the wildlife, including rare bird species.
A variety of landscapes throughout Cherga settlement (steppe, deciduous and coniferous forests and Alpine tundra) provide for accumulation of different species and breeds of animals at a restricted territory.
So as to preserve rare and disappearing species, which were registered in the Red Data book or the RSFSR and of the USSR, a zoocenter has been established at the Altai experimental husbandry of the Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
There were obtained steadily propagating populations of a wild lag gooze, besides there were collected mountain and snow geeze, and the Altai snowcocks. |
