This paper is dedicated to the history of the life path and scientific biography of Vladimir Georgievich Ishchenko, the founder of the national amphibian population ecology. He was born in 1938 and formed as a biologist in Leningrad, where he took his first steps in science under the guidance of Pavel Viktorovich Terentyev.
The article is devoted to the life story and scientific biography of Andrei V. Barabanov, a well-known specialist in the taxonomy of amphibians and reptiles, who worked together with herpetologists of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A list of his publications (29) and published new taxa (1 subgenus, 2 species and 2 subspecies), combinations (19), and status (1) is given.
The publication contains previously unknown biographic and bibliographic data on the herpetologists L. D. Moritz, S. F. Tsarevsky, B. V. Pestinsky and I. S. Darevsky. A significant amount of information was found in the Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg: student’s affairs of Moritz and Tsarevsky.