The St. Petersburg University Museum of Invertebrate Zoology is a study museum of Zoology Marine zoology in St. Petersburg University founded in 1819.

The first active Director (1833–1861) was Stepan Semyonovich Kutorga (1806–1861). The second (1862-1888) was Karl Fedorovich Kessler

Karl Fedorovich Kessler

Karl Fedorovich Kessler was a German-Russian zoologist and author of zoological taxa signed Kessler, who was mostly active in Kiev, Ukraine and conducted most of his studies of birds in Ukrainian regions of the Russian Empire - Kiev Governorate, Volyn Governorate, Kherson Governorate, Poltava...

 (1815–1881). The early marine collections are primarily from the Mediterranean due to associations with Stazione Zoologica

Stazione Zoologica

The Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn is a research institute in Naples, Italy, devoted to basic research in biology. Research is largely interdisciplinary involving the fields of evolution, biochemistry, molecular biology, neurobiology, cell biology, biological oceanography, marine botany, molecular...

 in Naples and Villefranche Zoological Station

Observatoire Oceanologique de Villefranche

The Observatoire Oceanologique de Villefranche is a group of laboratories located in Villefranche-sur-Mer in the Côte d'Azur, France and sponsored by the Universities of Paris , Nice Sophia Antipolis and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique...

 in France. Later material is from the White Sea

White Sea

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, Barents Sea

Barents Sea

The Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of Norway and Russia. Known in the Middle Ages as the Murman Sea, the sea takes its current name from the Dutch navigator Willem Barents...

, the Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

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, the Caspian Sea

Caspian Sea

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, Black Sea

Black Sea

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 and Red Sea

Red Sea

The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez...

as well as the oceans.The museum also contains 4,500 bird skins (1,100 species) and 1,160 recordings of birds
sounds.

The address is
Zoological Museum, Depts of Vertebrate and Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, St Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, 199034 Sankt-Peterburg, Russia