SamSU researchers conduct research on the Gissar Range...

The topics of scientific research of the doctoral student of the Department of Zoology of Samarkand State University Muhammadtuychi Rakhimov and master student Aziza Sunnatullayeva are connected with the Gissar Range and directly with the Hissar State Reserve. From July 11 to July 13 of this year, they, together with a senior researcher at the All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection (St. Petersburg, Russia), the world's largest scientist on carpenter beetles in Central and Central Asia, Ilya Igorevich kabak and a junior researcher at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, researcher PhD of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Shokhrukh Bolkiboev climbed one of the highest peaks of Western Gissar. Chimbay or Khoja, named after the guardian, collected important materials. In the course of research in the Uzbek part of the Gissar Range, for the first time, beetles, dipterans and other groups of insects were collected from the alpine meadows at an altitude of 3500-3800 meters above sea level.
- On July 14-16, on Mount Khodzhakulbars at an altitude of 4150 meters in the Gissar reserve, which is the largest in the republic, we collected materials related to the same category, - Muhammad Rakhimov said. - In addition, research was conducted in the Gilon Department of the Reserve with the participation of associate professors of the Department of Zoology of the SamSU Fazliddin Khalimov, Jasur Kudratov, researchers of the Institute of Zoology Dilshod Musaev and Shokhruz Nazarov. In the course of these studies, we obtained samples related to beetles, shackles, homoptera and other insects, as well as molluscs.
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