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Hans Schaanning and bird fauna research in the Pasvik valley ( 0Л . Makarova ) j P asvik is the Pasvik River (Paz) valley. This only river flowing out of Lake Inari and into the Barents Sea belongs to three countries. The bor der divides the river course that begins in Finland, then continues in Russia, downstream lower Rajakoski the left bank is in Norway, and the right bank - in Russia, and, finally, the river mouth is entirely in the Norwegian te rrito ry. This sparsely populated border area near the river has been visited by var ious people since long ago, mostly for official reasons. Many of them kept their traveler’s notes and reports where they mentioned specific features of the nature and gave description of the local lifestyle. Some of those notes have been published and these publications are an important source of information about our region. The book by the Russian consul D.N. Bukharov «Lapland Travel in the Summer of 1883» (Bukharov, 1885) is of great interest. Late in the autumn of 1883 Dmitry Bukharov made a journey upstream the Pasvik River from its estuary to the headwaters and arrived at Lake Inari in Finland. Besides his wonderful descriptions of the Saami lifestyle and interrelations in the border area he noted that «there should be a paradise for all sorts of birds, and on our way we often scare away whole flocks of ducks». Bukharov’s book is the first publication that describes not only the local nature, but also the rich bird fauna of the specific area of the Pasvik River where a reserve was established late in the XX century. Late in the XIX century F.D. Pleske visited the Kola Peninsula (1887). He summarized all the available information including the data from Norwegian and Finnish explorers of the High North. Pleske (1887) divided Lapland into vegetation belts according to their latitudes, and the Paz valley was classified as a coniferous forest belt (Bianki, 1987, 1997). Later G.F. Goebel drew longitudal borders (1902). He identified and mapped 19 bird fauna regions. According to his data, the Pasvik River is the border between east and west. For this reason, describing birds in this province, Goebel uses both his own materials dated 1882-1883, 1986, 1898, 10* 147