Institute of Zootechnics and Biology

Assoc. Prof.  Sergey V. Akchurin Deputy Director Dr. of Sc. (Veterinary Science)

Contacts: Tel: 7 499 976 02 36 7 499 976 14 47 Postal address: Timiryazevskaya str., 48 127550 Moscow e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Institute of Zootechnics and Biology is one of the oldest faculties of the University. Its history goes back to 1865 when the animal husbandry section was established as a structural unit of the Agricultural Division of the Academy. It has existed as an independent Faculty since 1934.

Departments of the Institute

• Dept. of Dairy and Beef Cattle Breeding
• Dept. of Private Zootechny
• Dept. of Zoology
• Dept. of Veterinary Medicine
• Dept. of Morphology and Veterinary and Sanitary Examination
• Dept. of Horse Breeding
• Dept. of Animal Feeding
• Dept. of Animal Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology
• Dept. of Physiology, Ecology and Biochemistry of Animals
• Dept. of Aquaculture and Beekeeping

The Institute has at its disposal many facilities where students can carry out their experiments: the horse-riding hall, poultry farm, apiary, laboratory of animal physiology and pathology, laboratory of quality assessment and certification of honey production and the laboratory of animal husbandry analyses.

The scientists of the Institute are the authors of the Russian textbooks on animal husbandry which are widely used by students of other Russian institutions and universities.

B.Sc. programs

• B.Sc. program "Animal Breeding"
• B.Sc. program "Animal Husbandary"
• B.Sc. program "Cynology"
• B.Sc. program "Feeding"
• B.Sc. program "Veterinary and Sanitary Expertise"
• B.Sc. program "Wild Game Management"
• B.Sc. program "Zoology"

M.Sc. programs

• M. Sc. program "Selection and Technological Control Methods of Livestock Production"
• M. Sc. program "Horse breeding and equestrian sports"
• M. Sc. program "Advanced technologies of animal nutrition and feed production" 
• M. Sc. program "Physiological and Biochemical Monitoring of Animal Health and Nutrition"
• M. Sc. program “Bioinformatics”
• M. Sc. program “Vertebrate animal resources”