Zabelin, Svyatoslav Igorevich

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Sviatoslav Igorevich Zabelin 121019 Russia, Moscow Box 211 Tel./Fax: (095) 124-79-34 E-mail: svet@seu.ru

Educated as a biologist at Moscow State University, Sviatoslav Zabelin served for eighteen years with the "Nature Protection Corps," first as an undergraduate and eventually as the president of movement's Coordinating Council, moving on in 1979 to work for seven years at a nature reserve in Turkmenia. Zabelin was a leading figure in the founding of the Socio-Ecological Union in 1989. From 1991 to 1993, he served in the Yeltsin government as a State Councilor on environmental and health protection issues. In 1993 Zabelin was awarded the prestigious Goldman Prize for environmental activism.

PUBLICATIONS

 * Dlussky, G. M.; Soyunov, O. S.; Zabelin, S. I. 1990 [1989]. Ants of Turkmenistan. Ashkhabad: Ylym Press, 273 pp.


 * Dlussky, G. M.; Zabelin, S. I. 1985. Ant fauna (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the River Sumbar Basin (south-west Kopetdag). Pp. 208-246 in: Nechaevaya, N. T. (ed.) The vegetation and animal world of western Kopetdag. Ashkhabad: Ylym, 278 pp.