The role of V.E. Yacoby in Soviet-French cooperation in the field of aviation ornithology

The article discusses Soviet-French scientifi c cooperation in the fi eld of aviation ornithology in the 1960s and 1970s. Particular attention is paid to the scientifi c relations of V.E. Jacoby, an employee of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals, USSR Academy of Sciences, with French specialists in the fi eld of ornithological support for fl ight safety. Based on unpublished archival documents (Russian Academy of Sciences Archive. F. 1987) and published materials, the article discusses Soviet-French scientifi c relations in the fi eld of aviation ornithology and some results of this cooperation. V.E. Jacoby has met repeatedly with ornithologists from France, where extensive experience in aircraft bird strike prevention has been accumulated. The most productive was his visit to France in 1976 to get acquainted with fundamental scientifi c research and practical work carried out in various organizations, scientifi c laboratories, and at airfi elds in France. Communications with leading French biologists and engineers allowed V.E. Jacoby to make a number of promising proposals for their implementation into practice of ornithological research and aircraft bird strike prevention in the USSR and to establish relations for further Soviet-French cooperation.