Career of Lev Alba. Commemoration of the scientist

The article is dedicated to the memory of a zoologist, ecologist and ornithologist Lev Davydovich Alba. Despite the fact that the main theme of his works was ornithology, a significant number of scientific papers is devoted to other vertebrates. L. D. Alba conducted the studies in expeditions, the first for the territory of Mordovia, and at the Biological Station of the Ogarev Mordovia State University, which occupied a special role in his life. The scientist made a great contribution to the development of the Biological Station as a base for practice in program development methodology. All his life L. D. Alba worked within the walls of Mordovia University, studying the fauna of the region, development of environmental management. Cooperative works with colleagues and publish later became the basis for the Red Book of the Republic of Mordovia, produced under the scientific editing of L. D. Alba. Also he was the author of several essays on rare species of animals. Besides scientific publications, L. D. Alba conducted much pedagogical work, the results of which now serve valuable methodological developments in the teaching of a number of biological disciplines. A great number of his students remember with gratitude not only his professional but also personal qualities. Many of them are now members of the Department of Biology and Biotechnology. He made a great contribution to the popularization of the scientific knowledge. His numerous appearances on television and radio, interviews in the press have always been exciting and topical.