Animal collection of Metropolitаn Josyf Slipy in the founds of the State natural-historical museum of the NAS of Ukraine

Abstract

On the basis of literary and own research on the history of natural history collections of the State Natural History Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the animal collection of Metropolitan Yosyf Slipy, which he collected during his exile in Siberia and donated to the museum, was analyzed. The obtained results will be taken into account in the further completion of the «Virtual collections» section of the information resource of the «Biodiversity of Ukraine» museum.