Paleontological and Stratigraphic Museum of Saint Petersburg State University
About museum
In 1868 the Paleontological and Stratigraphic Museum was founded as the Geological Cabinet by A. A. Inostrantsev, the university's first professor of geology. The basis of the museum collections is the collection of E. I. Eichwald, one of the founders of Russian paleontology, which includes more than a thousand new species from various groups of extinct organisms described in his major work "Paleontology of Russia." The museum houses fossils and sedimentary rocks that document the history of the Earth's development. The museum's holdings comprise more than 22,000 fossils of plants and animals, as well as sedimentary rocks.