Sep 8, 2026
Few people combine backgrounds in computational mathematics,
farming, publishing, and beekeeping quite like Ivan.
Father of a large family and a graduate of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, he has devoted the past decade to the study of honey bees, their biology, and the promotion of apiology throughout Russia.
Father of a large family and a graduate of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, he has devoted the past decade to the study of honey bees, their biology, and the promotion of apiology throughout Russia.
Ivan is the founder of the Association
for Natural Beekeeping in Russia and a passionate science
communicator, delivering lectures on bees to audiences ranging from
university students to business leaders. Through the Association,
he and his colleagues are leading initiatives to conserve Russia’s
dark forest bee populations and to study free-living honey bee
colonies in the forests of central Russia.
He has also introduced Russian readers to the work of Thomas
Seeley through his translations of several of Seeley’s books, with
additional publishing projects currently underway.
Please join us for a conversation that reaches across borders
into the wild and free-living honey bees of the Russian
forest.