Gentlemen Entomologists help me choose a university

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Avatar, 17.12.2009 16:36

I was fond of insects since childhood. Especially beetles.
And now I wanted to connect my life with what I love and admire.
You already have a higher education ( technical )

The following questions arise:
1. What institutes are there that teach you how to become a Coleopterologist (Entomologist)? Which ones are better ?
2. What are the specialties and related professions?
3. What are the admission methods for people who already have a higher technical education
4. And what do people who work in their specialty, so to speak?

Here are probably the ones that are still of interest in the first place. Interested in Russia. Moscow or St. Petersburg. although information about other cities may be of interest to other applicants
Surely there are people on the forum who work in such Institutes and they all know this in advance thank you.
P.S. After the new year, you should already choose a university and start preparing for the entrance exams.

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17.12.2009 16:50, Avatar

Briefly about yourself :

The other day I raised my collection collected in the 9th grade. Nothing special. Beetles of the middle zone (Nizhny Novgorod region) Candy box, round-eared needles (from my mother's sewing machine, probably fitting rooms) Caught himself and friends brought only a deer beetle borrowed from the school collection =)
Since childhood, some kind of irresistible craving for beetles. I read in some magazine or library that they are being starved of ether. Just found it on the shelves with tools - this was the catalyst for creating the collection. On the balcony, he arranged insectariums with a three-liter jar, a dozen May beetles. I regularly changed their birch branches. Until the ninth grade, I always let go of all the beetles, because I was brought up that it was bad to kill beetles =) It was sad to part with them, but my conscience told me so ) Having learned that they can be dried and collected, and even that this is a rather humane way - I was not stopped ) I remember in the spring when it was still snowing daily dreams about beetles were already beginning =) How they fly, crawl, and are caught.
Then Moscow Institute of Care vanity. And somehow it was forgotten
But you can't escape fate =)
Waiting for your advice.

17.12.2009 16:54, Dmitrii Musolin

probably in many universities you are not only TAUGHT, but also more often GIVEN the OPPORTUNITY to study something. You can't learn to be a coleopterist anywhere, you have to learn it yourself. Good universities will help and direct you.

The second education, as I understand it, is paid. Isn't that right? What is your degree? Does it make sense to try applying for a master's degree?

Do you want a classical biological education or an applied one? In the first case, you need to go to university, in the second-you can go to a agricultural or forest university with good entomologists. traditions.

What are your thoughts and future plans for work?

In St. Petersburg at the univ. there is a department of entomology (http://www.entomology.bio.pu.ru), near ZIN (where coleopterologists and collections live). In St. Petersburg, there is also a forestry engineering academy with the Department of Zoology (formerly called the Department of Forest Entomology -- http://ftacademy.ru/academy/faculties/LHF/cafedra/zoologia/). Forest insects, especially bark beetles , are a traditional object of the department's work.

I work both there and there (to varying degrees), I can probably tell you something. Write to us. musolin@gmail.com

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17.12.2009 17:54, Avatar

In our newspaper I read that Arvid Barshevsky, a coleopterologist, has become the Rector of Daugavpils University in Latvia. How did he get such a title then?

I have an engineering degree in the specialty " Automation of technological processes and production (in metallurgy)" MISiS

About the second education began only now to think. Since there is no practical benefit from the previous one (in the sense of work), which also does not

exist, the question of determining the life path arose. I didn't think about it before I just went to MISIS where my mom and dad studied I thought everything would be decided by itself. And now I know that scientific activity would be pleasant for me. It would be especially interesting if it was related to beetles.
So I ask knowledgeable people what is in this area, What is promising?

Surely you need an appropriate education. Therefore, I started with the choice of a university.

The field is not well studied for me, so special thanks for the information about job types. And what is the source of income (For whom it is not a secret)

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18.12.2009 11:54, гундоров

Entomologist.And the soul is drawn to It-sings.Above all.Working as an entomologist is official-UNIVERSITIES,MUSEUMS in Russia where this hobby(taxonomy, expeditions) is poorly funded-ZIN (St. Petersburg), MSU-Moscow, Univer-Novosibirsk.How many serious entomologists do we have in all universities of the country on a salary?Entomologists-taxonomists.I graduated from agricultural institute Saratov-fac Plant protection-Department of Entomology.Do you want to?Arrive.Only beetles in a warm laboratory to deal with sit-there is no such specialty-in demand.There is no such place in our country.
Your question is sincere and impresses with its naivety.When I was young, I also searched and thought-in Saratov, there are two places related to entomology-my agricultural institute (Department of Entomology and uni-biofac-head of Anikin Vasily.Try to ask him this question-you will be interested in what Vasily will answer.

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18.12.2009 22:16, AlexandrB

Everyone can enter the Kuban State Agrarian University (Krasnodar). We have a very good department of entomology. A. S. Zamotailov (a very good specialist on Carabidae) works here. We have access to many entomologists from other organizations in Krasnodar - V. I. Shchurov (perhaps the best butterfly specialist in the region), A. I. Mroshnikov (Cerambicidae), N. V. Okhrimenko (Chrysomelidae), etc. And in connection with the conditions of the region, entomologists are quite in demand. For example, I work at the Forest Protection Center after graduation. If you need more information, please write to your personal account.

For Ripper: almost any research institute related to entomology or university with such a department has the opportunity to study in graduate school (regardless of the previously acquired specialty).