The unique Museum of the Cambrian is planned to be created on the basis of the Lena Pillars National Park in Yakutsk. This issue was discussed at a meeting between the head of Yakutia, Aisen Nikolaev, and Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Rozanov, a scientist of the highest level in the field of geology, biology, paleontology and stratigraphy. This was announced by the Lena Pillars National Park on its website.
As noted in the message, Academician Rozanov has been insisting on the creation of such a museum since 2021.
“The territory of the Lena Pillars National Park is the place where most of the skeletal organisms of our planet actually originated. It is called the Cambrian Explosion. From that moment on, a huge number of microorganisms of different levels of organization began to build a skeleton, ”the national park quotes Rozanov.
According to the academician, for many years he was the chairman of the Cambrian International Subcommittee and had the opportunity to view all the most important and interesting world sections of the Cambrian and Precambrian boundary deposits. As Rozanov noted, “The Lena-Aldan interfluve and the Lena Pillars, in particular, are a unique and absolutely unsurpassed place in its quality, testifying to this event, which can be studied endlessly from different points of view.”
“In order for the idea of the Cambrian explosion, of the significance of this event to develop, it is necessary that all the material that has already been collected and that still needs to be collected be concentrated in the form of stone material and publications in one place. To do this, I propose to organize the Museum of the Cambrian in Yakutia,” said the academician.
As noted in the message, Rozanov and Nikolaev already discussed the need to establish a museum last year.
“Then the head of the republic appreciated the importance of the task and made a decision: there will be a Cambrian Museum! Now the conversation has gone further: Aisen Nikolayev has given a number of instructions to start designing a unique museum,” the National Park said.
In turn, the director of the Lena Pillars, Arkady Semenov, noted at the meeting that the opening of such a museum would become another direction for the development of the national park.
“The museum will essentially become a world-class research platform. Not only paleontological finds will be exhibited here, but a lot of scientific work will be carried out in laboratories and field conditions in the park, ” Semenov is quoted as saying in the message.
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