Natural history collections in the Kyiv Pedagogical Museum in 1902–1917

- (, ) Natural History Collections in the Kyiv Pedagogical Museum in 1902-1917. -Zagorodniuk, I. -Considered and substantiated here is the hypothesis of existence of natural history collections deposited in the Pedagogical Museum (PM), which existed in Kyiv during 1902-1917. It is shown that collections of the museum have been formed from several sources: 1) collections of Mykola Cherkunov , a teacher of the First Kyiv Gymnasium who collected geological rocks and biological specimens in Ukraine and abroad; 2) collections donated to the museum by well-known naturalists, particularly from Villafranka Marine Biological Station; 3) collections of display materials in all branches of natural sciences collected by the staff and students of the Gymnasium, also by course organizers at the PM; 4) collections purchased by the museum on grand exhibitions organized in Europe and the Russian Empire; 5) collections donated to the museum by educational societies. Some specimens deposited in the PM are described here, as well as detected the "traces" of collections, which were in the PM but nowadays they are preserved in other facilities. Among such collections is the insect collection of M. Cherkunov and Y. Gokhut deposited now in the funds of NMNH NAS of Ukraine (17 000 specimens, including 100 type specimens). Possible ways of the collections' transfer are analyzed, particularly during 1917-1919 when the PM was closed and natural history museums of the Academy of Sciences were established.