One of the tachinid cupboards opened 12 viewsLuckily for me the tachinid collection had already been rehoused and reorganised just prior to my visit. This relatively modern metal cabient holds the named and indet collections in solid-topped wooden drawers.
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One of the tachinid cupboards opened 8 viewsIn the background you can see the roll of foam that staff members are using to reline the older cabinets, bringing them up to a more modern level of finish.
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Looking along the corridor towards the stairs10 viewsMost of the collection is still housed in wooden cabinets. However, recently Nikita Vikhrev, Andrey Ozerov & Dimitry Gavryushin have been working hard to modernise the entire Diptera collection and already one can see the fruits of their labours.
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Looking out of the window10 viewsLooking out of the museum windows at the buildings across the street.
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Mixed indet tachinids19 viewsA typical drawer of unidentified tachinids. Most specimens have data labels written in cyrillic.
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Specimens in a drawer13 viewsHere a typical drawer can be seen with its lid and the index for the tachinid specimens.
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One of the tachinid index pages12 viewsA carefully prepared index accompanies the tachinid collection. The tachinid specimens are ordered in a fairly haphazard way but the index provides a quick lookup to anything in the collection.
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Mixed indet tachinids14 views
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Mixed indet tachinids16 views
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Mixed indet tachinids11 views
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A drawer of specimens with a simple microscope14 views
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Mixed indet phasiines14 views
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