History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back TO THE 25th ANNIVERSARY OF TEMBOTOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY OF MOUNTAIN TERRITORIES, RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES F.A. Tembotova, E.P. Kononenko Tembotov Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories, RAS is one of the leading biological academician institutes in Russia. The Institute possesses high intellectual resources, which makes it possible to study fragile mountain ecosystems and their components in terms of global climate changes and increasing anthropogenic impact in an integrated way. The Institute’s board has preserved and intensively develops the scientifi c school "Biological effect of interaction between factors of zonality on the plains and of vertical zonality in the mountains", which was elaborated by A.K. Tembotov, the corresponding member of RAS. At present the scientific school leader is F.A. Tembotova, the corresponding member of RAS. The scientific results of the Institute are fundamental and interdisciplinary, and correspond to the Program of fundamental scientific investigations of the state Academies of Sciences for the period of 2013–2020. The scientific results have been realized under conditions of mountain territories with consideration for the vertical-zonal structure of the Caucasus by means of traditional and up-to-date techniques. Specialists in Biology, Geography, Soil science, Chemistry and Medicine work at the Institute. Some employees (13 %) are involved in educational activities; they introduce scientific results in educational process at different levels (i.e. preschool, school, higher school and postgraduate levels). The Institute regularly organizes the Conference with international participation "Mountain Ecosystems and their Components"; the latest conferences took place in 2012 (Abkhazia), 2014 (Adygei), 2017 and 2019 (Kabardino-Balkaria). IEMT RAS essentially participates in popularization of the science and ecological education of the population by means of the interregional public movement "Ecology is life", which was founded by the scientists of the Institute. Keywords: Tembotov Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories, RAS; 25-th anniversary, fundamental and interdisciplinary scientific studies on fragile mountain ecosystems, scientific school developed by A.K. Tembotov, the corresponding member of RAS, vertical-zonal structure of the Caucasus, popularization of science. DOI: 10.25791/intstg.08.2019.792 Contacts: E-mail: iemt@mail.ru Pp. 03-23.