Stanislav Puchkovskiy

Biography:

Stanislav Vladimirovich Puchkovsky is a Professor and Doctor of Biological Sciences at the Institute of Natural Sciences, Udmurt State University, Russia, with more than 53 years of academic and teaching experience. Trained originally as a biology teacher at the Tyumen State Pedagogical Institute, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute under Professor S. P. Naumov. He earned his PhD in 1970 with a comparative ecological study of shrews on the Onega Peninsula and later defended his doctoral dissertation in 2000 on comparative survival strategies of brown bears and shrews. A member of the International Bear Association since 2003, his research spans zoology, mammalogy, ecology, evolutionary biology, and environmental conservation. He has conducted extensive fieldwork across multiple regions of Russia, including long-term studies in major nature reserves, focusing particularly on the behavioral ecology and communicative activity of brown bears. Professor Puchkovsky is the author of original concepts in evolutionary biology, including biological redundancy and program evolution, and has developed a widely cited framework on brown bear dendroactivity. He has published over 200 scientific works and is the author or co-author of 15 books, including nine scientific monographs, while actively mentoring students and collaborating on long-term ecological research.