Institute of Biology of the Yakut Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences

April 1977 USSR. Yakut ASSR. Yakutsk Vasily Gavrilovich Alekseev, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Head of the Laboratory of Protein and Nucleic Acids, Institute of Biology, Yakut Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and laboratory assistant Tatyana Shcherbakova during a study of the mechanisms of adaptation of plants and animals to the harsh conditions of the North. The exact date of shooting has not been established. Alexander Yakovlev/TASS