In August of the current year, the XV meeting of the Russian Entomological Society took place in Novosibirsk. It is held every five years. At the last meeting, Voronezh State University Professor Oleg Negrobov was awarded the title of an Honorary member of the Russian Entomological Society.
Having been founded in 1859, the Russian Entomological Society is one of the oldest scientific biological societies in Russia. Today, it has over five thousand members, including specialists in pest management, forest and medical entomology, quarantine species, biological control, as well as taxonomists and faunists.
It is not by accident that Oleg Negrobov has been elected member of the Russian Entomological Society. The scholar has published 982 works, including two monographs in German, published in Germany, and one monograph in English published in Hungary. Oleg Negrobov has described over 480 new species from various parts of Russia, as well as from 35 countries and regions of Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa. Articles have been published in leading international and reviewed journals with a high impact factor. included in the Web of Science and Scopus international databases, including 12 international publications in Belgium, Germany, England, France, the USA, Norway, Finland, Turkey, Poland, Japan, Slovakia, and Hungary.
Oleg Negrobov has been advisor for 1 postdoctoral and 29 PhD theses. His students work in the biggest institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Kiev, Nalchik, as well as the universities of Voronezh, Borisoglebsk, Belgorod, Balashov, nature reserves, and ecology-oriented institutions.
