Utrish Marine Station

Утришская морская станция

Current Inventory

None.

Past Inventory

♀ Zaya (transfer ≤ 2024-Apr)

♀ Lyalechka (transfer ≤ 2023-Jul)

♂ Khoma (death 2023-Jun-15)

♀ Lyusya (death ≥ 2021)

♂ Svyatogor (transfer 2021-Jun-13)

♀ Yefrosinya (transfer 2021-Jun-13)

♂ Yakut (death 2020-Dec-16)

♀ Antonina (transfer ≥ 2008-Jun)

♀ Bulka II (transfer ≥ 2008-Jun)

♂ Pufik (transfer ≥ 2008-Jun)

♀ Maya (transfer ≤ 2008-Apr-14)

♀ Alina (transfer 2008)

Notes

Founded in 1978, the Utrish Marine Station describes itself as "an interlaboratory hospital for studying marine mammals and fish". It is located at coordinates 44.705351°,  37.470678°.  It is operated by the Institute of Ecology and Evolution named after A. N. Severtsov of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Институт проблем экологии и эволюции имени А. Н. Северцова Российской академии наук), or ИПЭЭ РАН.

A document shared by the Orcinus Center stated that four Utrish-owned or held walruses died from 2019 to 2023; at this time, I only have confirmation of two deaths within that timeframe. A third death is strongly believed to be Lyusya, who was last sighted at the facility in 2021; the fourth is not known at this time. The document further states that there were then two surviving Utrish-owned walruses, both on loan to other facilities -- one being walrus Lyalechka at the Gelendzhik Dolphinarium, and the other being walrus Zaya at the Anapa Dolphinarium on Bolshoy Utrish.

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