The Russian Entomological Society is a Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n scientific society devoted to entomology

Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology...

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The Society was founded in 1859 in St. Petersburg by Karl Ernst von Baer

Karl Ernst von Baer

Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn also known in Russia as Karl Maksimovich Baer was an Estonian naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, a founding father of embryology, explorer of European Russia and Scandinavia, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a...

 , Johann Friedrich von Brandt

Johann Friedrich von Brandt

Johann Friedrich von Brandt was a German naturalist.Brandt was born in Jüterbog and educated at a gymnasium in Wittenberg and the University of Berlin. In 1831 he was appointed director of the Zoological Department at the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, where he published in Russian...

 who was then the director of the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science , Ya. A. Kushakevich, Colonel Alexandr Karlovich Mandershtern , Alexander von Middendorff

Alexander von Middendorff

Alexander Theodor von Middendorff was a Baltic German zoologist and explorer.- Early life :Middendorff's mother Sophia Johanson was an Estonian peasant girl who had been sent to Saint Petersburg for education by her parents. There she met with the future director of the St...

 and Colonel of General Staff Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky. Karl Baer was elected the first president of the Society.