Ханс Сконнинг. Первый орнитолог Пасвика : [сборник] / М-во природ. ресурсов и экологии Рос. Федерации, Федер. гос. бюджет. учреждение «Гос. природ. заповед. «Пасвик» ; [сост.: Макарова О. А. и др. ; пер.: Куринский А. С. и др.]. - Рязань : Голос губернии, 2014.

H an s S ch a an n in g an d b ird fa u n a re se a rc h in th e P a sv ik v alley and 1901 to characterize the western part, and materials by Doctor A. Wessel dated 1884-1901, and the collector H. Lilliestierna dated 1898-1901. Goebel is known to have visited this region only in 1901 (Bianki, 2997). Taking into account tha t Goebel used data by Wessel and Lilliestierna, he, probably, knew or, at least, heard of Hans Schaanning. In 1907 the book «0stfinmarkens Fuglefauna» (Bird Fauna of Eastern Finnmark) was published in Norway. Its author was Hans Thomas Lange Schaanning (Schaanning, 1907). That was a special issue (No. 8) in the series of annual publications by the Museum of Bergen. The sub title said: Ornithological information on Varangerfjord and, in particular, Sydvaranger (South Varanger) fauna for 1900-1906. It was a list of birds living in East Finnmark, mostly in the Pasvik River valley. But making such a list took years of hard work. And th a t book was to play an important role in the study of the Pasvik River valley. After the turmoil of the XX century the te rrito ry of Pasvik on the Russian side practically was not studied whereas Norwegian scientists continued the ir research in Pasvik and published «Atlas of Birds of Finnmark» (Frantzen et al., 1991). In the 1990’s the Norwegian partners came forward with a proposal to arrange a reserve on the both sides of the border. Steinar Wikan played a spe cial role in its establishment. He prepared a tex t to show th a t the number of species has grown from 172 (Schaanning’s list) to 218 (Wikan, 1987). This was how the idea emerged to establish a common reserve to protect the birds population in the central part of the valley divided by the state border. Wikan played the major role during the first joint exploration of the Pasvik River in June 1990 telling about Varlam Island, Schaanning family, and special fea tures of the regional fauna. Later Steinar always supported the reserve and joint research, consulting the personnel. He collected an enormous amount of information, found a large number of documents in archives and wrote books about Johan Koren, Ellisif Wessel, about his journeys in the Kola Peninsula etc. (Wikan, 2000, 2009). The information presented here is mostly borrowed from his publications. A researcher from Kandalaksha Reserve, the famous ornithologist Vitaly V. Bianki was invited for exploration of the would-be reserve. He supported the idea and took part in the research for another ten years (Bianki, 1999). Later, it was him who proposed to include the Russian pa rt of Pasvik into the Wetlands of In terna tiona l Importance (Bianki, Makarova, 2000). The Norwegian part of the river is already included in the list having the relevant certificate. This practically concluded the purely faunistic research in the Pasvik River valley. The establishment of the reserve started the systematic study of bird eco logy th a t resulted into the book «The Birds of Pasvik» (Khlebosolov et al., 2007). This study also showed what significant changes have happened to the 1 48